UK Statistics Authority: Consultants
(asked on 20th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the UK Statistics Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he 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 information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the hon. Member’s Parliamentary Question of 20th July is attached and below.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
Kenny MacAskill MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
12 August 2022
Dear Mr MacAskill,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how much the UK Statistics Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if we will publish a breakdown of the (a) amountpaid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted (40939).
Table 1 provides the spend on externally contracted consultancy services for the UK Statistics Authority in each of the last five years.
Table 1: Spend on externally contracted consultancy services for the UK Statistics Authority in each of the last five years
2021/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 |
£6,065,000 | £11,207,000 | £12,028,000 | £6,259,000 | £924,000 |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder[1]. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK[2].
All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
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