The request asked for a detailed list of spending on consultancy services from 2014/15 to 2017/18. It further asked for a detailed list of the spend by other NHS organisations approved by NHS Improvement from  2014/15 to 2017/18.

NHS Improvement held some of the information requested and decided to withhold all of the information it held on the basis of the applicability of sections 21 and 22 the FOI Act.