Department for Business and Trade: Consultants
(asked on 21st November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
Answered by
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for Business and Trade is a newly formed Department established in February 2023. The new department absorbed the functions of the former Department for International Trade (DIT) and some of the functions of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The amount spent on consultancy by both departments are as follows:
Year | DIT | BEIS |
2021 | £5,782 | £636,000 |
2022 | £380,000 | £587,000 |
2023 | £865,000 | £649,000 |
The Department publishes its annual expenditure on consultancy in its Annual Report and Accounts.