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WQ.268/2024
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE CHIEF MINISTER
BY DEPUTY M.B. ANDREWS OF ST HELIER NORTH QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 9th SEPTEMBER 2024 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2024
Question
"Will the Chief Minister state how much the Government has spent on consultants, excluding those permanently employed in the Health Department, each year from 2014 to date?"
Answer
Since 2019, the Government has published an analysis of expenditure on third-party contractors in line with the requirements of P.59/2019. This is summarised below from those public reports.
The P59 reporting categories changed in July 2020, hence the below analysis shows the categories after that date (Table 1) and before that date (Table 2).
Table 1: Agency Health Care & Social Workers, Consultancy, Contingent Labour, Fixed term Contractors and Local Agency Costs July 2020 – December 2023
Expenditure has been reported in the P59 report in the below categorises since July 2020:
£000 | Jul -Dec 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Agency Health Care & Social Workers | 6,780 | 15,981 | 23,916 | 37,746 |
Consultancy | 23,622 | 39,894 | 33,013 | 40,146 |
Contingent Labour | 6,447 | 13,692 | 27,055 | 26,103 |
Fixed term Contractors | 9,007 | 27,826 | 28,212 | 16,964 |
Local Agency | 2,227 | 5,986 | 5,190 | 2,628 |
Total | 48,083 | 103.379 | 117,386 | 123,587 |
Table 2: Consultancy Costs January 2019 – June 2020
Expenditure was reported in the P59 report in the below categorises between January 2019 - June 2020:
£000 | 2019 | Jan – Jun 2020 |
Consultancy services provided by a supplier | 11,963 | 8,239 |
Consultancy services provided by a specific individual | 7,240 | 3,839 |
Fixed-term employees Civil Service Grade 15 and below | 15,378 | 6,878 |
Fixed-term employees above Civil Service Grade 15 | 1,235 | 525 |
Local agency staff | 5,789 | 2,279 |
Local and UK Nursing agency cost | 6,008 | 2,712 |
Social worker agency cost | 2,853 | 1,072 |
Total | 50,466 | 25,544 |
For the period 2014 – 2018, before the P59 reporting commenced, comparable information is not available in an extractable format.
For reference, links to the published reports as follows:
• First report (January to June 2019): See R.149/2019
• Second report (July to December 2019): See R.63/2020
• Third report (January to June 2020): See R.13/2021
• Fourth report (July to December 2020): See R.118/2021
• Fifth report (January to June 2021): See R.187/2021
• Sixth report (July to December 2021) See R.17/2023
• Seventh report (January to June 2022) See R.17/2023
• Eighth report (July to December 2022) See R.30/2024
• Ninth report (January to July 2023) To be published September 2024
• Tenth report (July to December 2023) To be published September 2024