Speeches

Margaret Hodge – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Hodge on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish a list of all secondees to his Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.

David Mowat

In line with privacy and data protection legislation as well as standing Cabinet Office instructions, the exact numbers and details of individual roles cannot be published. This is to prevent the personal identification of individuals either directly or in combination with other published information.

There have been two appointments in total into Senior Civil Servant roles as follows, during the years in question as follows:

Name

Start date

Grade

End date

Seconding Organisation

Role

Robin Furnell

24/08/2015

SCS1

31/12/2016

Accenture

Contract Management Function Implementation Lead

Nicole Mather

22/04/2014

SCS2

22/10/2016

Deloitte (formally seconded to BEIS and part-time to DH)

Director – Office for Life Sciences

During the same period of time, at lower grades the following table summarises the disclosable information

Company

Numbers

Grades of role

PwC

5 or fewer

HEO and SEO

Deloitte

5 or fewer

Analyst and G7

Ernst and Young

5 or fewer

G7

KPMG

0

Accenture

0

The above information does not include secondees to the Department’s agencies or arms’ length bodies.