Treasury: Consultants

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs has used the services of (i) PwC, (ii) Deloitte, (iii) Ernst and Young, (iv) KPMG and (v) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (A) work was undertaken and (B) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.


Answered by
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Simon Kirby
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

HMT

The department always seeks to use internal resources whenever possible in order to fulfill its objectives, and procure external expertise only after internal and a civil service-wide recruitment exercise has been exhausted.

The cost to the public purse for using PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG for the last three financial years can be found in the tables below:

Supplier

Year

Spend

Ernst & Young LLP

2013-14

185,715.00

2014-15

96,000.00

2015-16

160,000.00

Supplier

Year

Spend

Deloitte LLP

2013-14

233,692.00

2014-15

65,500.00

2015-16

287,338.00

Supplier

Year

Spend

Deloitte MCS Ltd

2013-14

86,461.00

2014-15

105,674.00

2015-16

0

Supplier

Year

Spend

PwC

2013-14

135,418.00

2014-15

0

2015-16

101,755.00

Supplier

Year

Spend

KPMG LLP

2013-14

0

2014-15

585,600.00

2015-16

34,429.00

As part of the government’s transparency agenda launched in 2010, the department publishes on a monthly basis, the amount spent on consultancy. However, it is only the amount spent, not the suppliers which is published. The time taken to collate spend with other suppliers for the requested time period could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The number of times used and the work undertaken by our consultants could also only be provided at disproportionate cost.

HMRC

HMRC do not maintain a central record of individual assignments therefore data is not available except at disproportionate cost. However HMRC can provide the annual spend with these companies for the last 3 financial years. It should be noted that this spend will cover a wide range of services.

Supplier

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU

£1,566,218

£1,557,065

£599,286

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

£591,360

£449,908

£216,885

ERNST & YOUNG GLOBAL LIMITED

£18

£664,537

£34,150

KPMG INTERNATIONAL

£133,991

£177,665

£0

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