Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms (A) Deloitte & Touche, (B) Ernst & Young, (C) KPMG and (D) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by (1) their Department, (2) any predecessor Departments and (3) departmental agencies.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by her Department.
Answered by Will Quince
Details for all Government contracts above £10,000 post 2016 are published on Contracts Finder: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search
Information on the value and nature of individual contracts pre 2016 is on archived database systems and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Historic expenditure above £25,000 against individual suppliers since 2010 is available on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/spending-over-25-000--2#2010-to-2018
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by the Department, including predecessor Departments and its agencies.
Answered by Mike Freer
The above listed suppliers have provided the following services to MoJ including its Executive Agencies and ALBs during the period specified:
Estates Professional Services;
Management Consultancy Services;
Financial Services; and
Digital and Technology Services.
Please see attached Annex for a breakdown by financial year
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by the Department, including predecessor Departments and its agencies.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Details of Government contracts awarded from 2011 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
Cabinet Office does not hold the historic data centrally as it would involve a disproportionate amount of costs and time to collate the information. A new contract database, Atamis, has been purchased and is now live. This is used to capture all information on current contracts which started on or after January 2022 and all future contracts.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by the Department, including predecessor Departments and its agencies.
Answered by Alex Chalk
Since 2010, the Ministry of Defence has placed almost 500 contracts with the specified companies. As such, a full departmental response could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Providing a breakdown of contract value by year would also result in double counting due to contracts being open over multiple years. However, the table below provides total payments to each named accountancy firm by financial year from 2010-11 to 2021-22:
Year | Deloitte | Ernst & Young | KPMG | Price Water House Coopers |
2010-11 | £8,168,445.53 | £2,683,161.84 | £1,728,593.60 | £1,791,963.49 |
2011-12 | £10,951,834.45 | £491,725.31 | £10,314,788.86 | £2,246,947.04 |
2012-13 | £19,340,635.84 | £3,654,767.98 | £13,045,832.64 | £5,429,556.75 |
2013-14 | £29,303,187.02 | £17,258,840.61 | £25,308,805.37 | £12,842,676.27 |
2014-15 | £20,013,586.16 | £17,524,671.44 | £39,337,383.47 | £10,609,715.97 |
2015-16 | £15,202,474.72 | £19,053,613.65 | £36,521,054.51 | £17,586,800.77 |
2016-17 | £20,233,808.07 | £19,446,071.68 | £35,339,261.27 | £27,606,130.15 |
2017-18 | £27,462,233.65 | £9,152,441.79 | £41,899,779.10 | £17,889,239.14 |
2018-19 | £15,678,160.05 | £4,382,347.73 | £34,182,223.95 | £11,665,882.56 |
2019-20 | £26,731,275.78 | £6,202,441.02 | £53,492,911.25 | £10,701,954.37 |
2020-21 | £28,581,384.49 | £3,018,831.14 | £42,684,056.10 | £16,341,632.65 |
2021-22 | £35,256,836.67 | £7,559,486.41 | £25,266,455.76 | £10,215,022.30 |
Total | £256,923,862.43 | £110,428,400.60 | £359,121,145.88 | £144,927,521.46 |
It should be noted that the composition of the totals has varied over time. For example, the payments by procurement card are included from 2011/12 onwards, and expenditure by DSTL and the UK Hydrographic Office is included from 2013-14 onwards.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by her Department.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Information on the definitions of consultancy spend can be found on GOV.UK at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987885/Procurement_CAS_Definition_Release_9_v1__2_.pdf
The FCDO's E-sourcing system only goes back to 2016 so we are unable to provide data between 2010/11 and 2015.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by the office of the Prime Minister.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Details of Government contracts awarded from 2011 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
Cabinet Office does not hold the historic data centrally as it would involve a disproportionate amount of costs and time to collate the information. A new contract database, Atamis, has been purchased and is now live. This is used to capture all information on current contracts which started on or after January 2022 and all future contracts.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by her Department.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by her Department.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The Government is committed to maintaining transparency about its procurement activity. Since 2010, HM Treasury has published information about its contracts with a value of over £10,000 on the “Contracts Finder” website.
Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what percentage of (a) male and (b) female workers were in the same job as 12 months earlier in each (i) region and (ii) country of the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 11 November is attached.