Government Legal Department: Consultants
(asked on 20th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much the Government Legal Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
The Government Legal Department (GLD) spent the following amounts on external consultants over the past five financial years. This information is available in the public domain and is as follows:
2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
£79,000 | £101,000 | £144,000 | £111,000 | £342,000 |
The breakdown of this consultancy spending by each firm contracted is as follows:
Name of consultancy firm | Amount paid to firm | Specific matters on which they were consulted |
North Highland | £80,000 | Productivity improvements in legal activity delivery |
Quo Imus Ltd | £20,000 | Work on a review of shared service communications across AGO, GLD and HMCPSI |
AMEO Professional Services Ltd | £99,000 | Improvements to GLD's recruitment and resourcing strategy and processes |
TPX Ltd | £228,000 | Improvements to GLD's recruitment and resourcing strategy and processes |
Ixia Consultancy Ltd | £40,000 | Design work on programme to enhance GLD’s Leadership capability |
Mike Curtis Reward Solutions Ltd | £137,000 | Support to the development of a new pay framework for GLD |
Incendium Consulting Ltd | £57,000 | Provision of specialist legal market analysis to development of GLD’s future accommodation strategy |
Alexander Mann Solutions Ltd | £32,000 | A review of corporate services capability and design for GLD and its shared service customers |
Rainmaker Solutions | £79,000 | Development of cloud analytical solutions |
Various | £5,000 | Short-term project and consultancy support |