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Cabinet Office have published guidance on the use of management consultants Cabinet Office controls guidance: version 4.0 <\/em>which government departments and their arms length bodies are required to follow. A copy of the guidance is attached.<\/p>

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National Health Service providers follow a similar consultancy spending approvals process as defined by Monitor and the Trust Development Authority (TDA). Monitor has published the following guidance for foundation trusts Consultancy spending approval process: Initial guidance to NHS foundation trusts<\/em>, with TDA publishing similar for NHS trusts Consultancy spending controls: Initial Guidance to NHS Trusts<\/em>. Copies of the guidance are attached.
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At this time, these do not include any directive to set caps on rates paid to management consultancies.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Prior of Brampton"} , "attachment" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451111/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "Cabinet Office consultancy guidance.pdf"} , "title" : "Cabinet Office guidance"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451111/answer/attachment/2", "fileName" : {"_value" : "Monitor consultancy guidance.pdf"} , "title" : "Monitor guidance"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451111/answer/attachment/3", "fileName" : {"_value" : "TDA consultancy guidance.pdf"} , "title" : "TDA guidance"} ], "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2016-02-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2016-02-22T17:25:18.703Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2016-02-08", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "NHS: Management Consultants"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they propose to cap the rates paid by NHS bodies to management consultancies, similar to their policy with regard to staff agencies.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"} ], "uin" : "HL5977"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 1, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }