Ministry of Defence: Consultants

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many consultants his Department has hired in each year since 2016; and what the cost of that process has been to the public purse.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 22nd March 2019

Ministry of Defence (MOD) expenditure on consultancy staff is published and can be found in Table 9 of the relevant Excel tables relating to the finance and economics annual statistical bulletins for Departmental Resources on the gov.uk website at the link below

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/defence-departmental-resources-index

Information on the number of off-payroll engagements (including consultants) for periods of six months or more is available in the MOD's Annual Report and Accounts at the links below:

2015-16 and 2017-18

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-annual-reports

2016-17

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017

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