Ministry of Justice: Consultants
(asked on 1st June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent in total on external management consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and what ten projects or work areas in each of those financial years required the greatest expenditure on support from those consultants.
The Ministry of Justice makes use of management consultants to advise on resolutions to complex and challenging problems. To ensure value for money is secured from the engagement of management consultants, the Ministry’s commercial policy is to put new requirements out to competition.
The Ministry of Justice total spend on external management consultants in the relevant period is set out in Table 1 below:
Table 1
Consultancy Spend by Financial Year & Business Area, £000s
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
MoJ HQ | 4,934 | 6,520 | 5,293 |
Her Majesty's Prison & Probation Service | 2,942 | 5,046 | 4,935 |
Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunals Service | 5,782 | 478 | 151 |
Office of the Public Guardian | 0 | 0 | 21 |
Legal Aid Agency | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Total MoJ | 13,658 | 12,045 | 10,403 |
The 10 work areas with the greatest expenditure on external management consultancy for each of those financial years are as set out in Table 2 below:
Table 2
Consultancy Spend by Financial Year & Projects/Work Areas, £000s
|
| 2019/20 |
1 | HMCTS Reform Programme | 5,806 |
2 | MoJ Commercial and Contract Management | 3,229 |
3 | HMPPS - Community Interventions | 1,305 |
4 | MoJ People Group | 695 |
5 | HMPPS - Prisons | 654 |
6 | HMPPS - Probation | 524 |
7 | MoJ Property | 509 |
8 | HMPPS - Prison Supply | 227 |
9 | Directorate of Judicial Offices | 173 |
10 | HMPPS - Youth Custody Service | 173 |
|
| 2020/21 |
1 | HMPPS - Prison Supply | 2,065 |
2 | HMPPS - Reducing Reoffending | 1,979 |
3 | MoJ Commercial and Contract Management | 1,913 |
4 | MoJ Property | 1,463 |
5 | MoJ Digitech | 1,326 |
6 | MoJ People Group | 789 |
7 | MoJ Security, Privacy and Live Service | 723 |
8 | HMPPS - Strategy, Planning & Performance | 474 |
9 | HMPPS - Prisons | 438 |
10 | HMCTS - Business Resilience | 130 |
|
| 2021/22 |
1 | MoJ Digitech | 2,957 |
2 | HMPPS - Prisons | 2,485 |
3 | HMPPS - Prison Supply | 2,465 |
4 | MoJ People Group | 507 |
5 | MoJ Data & Analytical Services | 495 |
6 | Directorate of Judicial Offices | 456 |
7 | MoJ Commercial and Contract Management | 436 |
8 | HMCTS - Common Platform Programme | 151 |
9 | Judicial Appointments Commission | 146 |
10 | HMPPS - Strategy, Planning & Performance | 96 |