Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on consultancy work undertaken by McKinsey and Company as part of its Arm’s Length Body Transformation Programme; and if he will publish the (a) reports and (b) recommendations made by McKinsey and Company on that work.

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The cost towards “ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY WORK” for McKinsey was £403,385.

Defra does not plan to publish the McKinsey report and its recommendations, as it relates to work under the previous Government.