Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
Consultancy spend for the Department over the past three years is listed in the attached spreadsheet.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, 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.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
My department has not had any secondees in the last three financial years from any of the named companies requested.
However, my department has had a total of seven secondees from other consulting firms. Five of the seven roles were to help advise on specific housing and property issues, including three roles on the Private Rented Sector Taskforce. One other secondee is working in my Implementation Unit implementing reviews on housing and planning, and one secondee was working as a Crown Premises Fire Inspector. Only three of the seven secondees are still working in DCLG.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by his Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
Answered by Mark Francois
Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, Government Departments are required to publicise successful appointments.
Asked by: Margaret Hodge (Labour - Barking)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households on the social housing waiting list in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham require a one bedroom property.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The latest figure, for 1 April 2014, is published by the Department as part of the local authority housing statistics and is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2013-to-2014