Recommendation 21

We again challenged the Department and NHST&T on the value for money of their spend on consultants. The Department told us the average day rate for consultants was £1,100 but that some would have “undoubtedly” earned more than that. They were unable to tell us what NHST&T’s highest paid individual consultants received during our evidence session and committed to providing us with further detail.47 However, in their letter to us after our evidence session, the Department and the Chief Executive of the UKHSA subsequently informed us that they were not able to provide any further information as NHST&T did not hold data on the pay of individual consultants.48