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<br /> <br /><p>Total Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB) spend on consultancy services
in the year 2014-15 is shown in the table below. Data for 2015-16 will not be available
until the accounts are published after the financial year end.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NDPB
Consultancy Spend 2014-15 (excluding NHS England)</p></td><td><p><strong></strong>£000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority</p></td><td><p>447</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human
Tissue Authority</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p>11,773</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care
Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>1,318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Standards
Authority for Health & Social Care</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health
& Social Care Information Centre</p></td><td><p>1,526</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health
Research Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Institute for
Health & Care Excellence</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NDPB total</p></td><td><p>15,092</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
/> <br /><p>Operating expenses, including expenditure on consultancy services, can
be found on pages 148 and 149 of NHS England’s 2014/15 annual report:</p><br /><p><a
href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nhse-annual-report-2014-15.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nhse-annual-report-2014-15.pdf</a></p><br
/><p>The figures provided are disclosed as expenditure on “consultancy services” in
the administration and programme costs notes in the Department’s Annual Report and
Accounts.</p><br /><p>Consultancy services are defined as “The provision to management
of objective advice and assistance relating to strategy, structure, management or
operations of an organisation in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such assistance
will be provided outside the ‘business as usual’ environment when in-house skills
are not available and will be of no essential consequence and time-limited. Services
may include the identification of options with recommendations and/or assistance with
(but not delivery of) the implementation of solutions.”</p><br /> <br />
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