Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.

The Home Office holds information on consultancy fees and reports this in its Annual Report and Accounts.

Refer to the links and pages below for the available published information that relates to consultancy spending.

Pages 155-157 (Pages 159-161 on the pdf reader) of the 2023-24 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 173-175 of the 2022-23 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 107-108 of the the 2022-23 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

Home_Office_ARA_21-22_Final_-_Gov.uk.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 99-101 of the 2020-21 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Information relating to financial year 2024-25 will be available following the end of the financial year and once the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts have been laid before Parliament.

Note that the Home Office reports by its financial year (April-March), rather than on a calendar year basis.