Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
Spend on externally contracted consultancy services for the core Department in each of the last five years is shown in the table below.
FCDO 2021/22 | FCDO 2020/21 | FCO + DFID 2019/20 | FCO + DFID 2018/19 | FCO + DFID 2017/18 |
£5.7 million | £2.7 million | £3 million | £2.6 million | £1.3 million |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.
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 Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK.
All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.