Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on external consultants in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
Details of the FCO’s spending on Consultancy for each financial year is published in the FCO Annual Report and Accounts, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications.
Consultants provide expert advice relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of the FCO, when in-house skills are not available.