HC Deb 14 March 2000 vol 346 c132W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies have spent on external consultants and advisers since May 1997. [102099]

Yvette Cooper

Total expenditure on external consultants and advisers, by the Department of Health's agencies and non-departmental public bodies (including Special Health Authorities1), from May 1997 to 31 September 1999 is as follows:

£ million
Agencies 3.08
NDPBs 4.38
1 Except the National Blood Authority