Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support his Department provides to the Spring Consortium; and what the set up costs were of that Consortium.
Spring was a consortium consisting of Deloitte, Mutual Ventures, and the Innovation Unit who were formed to perform the role of delivery partner for the department’s children’s social care Innovation Programme. The contract started on 5 June 2014 and ended 31 March 2018. The total cost of the contract was £12,398,096.52.