Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.

The information requested for this PQ is publicly available. Since BEIS has recently been created through a machinery of government change the data is available through separate weblinks.

The ex-DECC link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/departmental-spend-over-500. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.

The ex-BIS link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-spending-totals. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.