Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consultants

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Margaret Hodge Portrait
Margaret Hodge
(Labour - Barking)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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.

Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

DELOITTE
2013/14:£69,000
2014/15:£33,000
2015/16:£121,000

ERNST & YOUNG
2013/14:£480,000
2014/15:£328,000
2015/16:£181,000

KPMG
2013/14:£140,000
2014/15:£116,000
2015/16:£132,000

PWC
2013/14:£355,000
2014/15:£377,000
2015/16:£1,420,000

Consultants
2013/14:£1,500,000
2014/15:£1,600,000
2015/16:£1,100,000

All applicable expenditure with these companies is published as part of HMG's Transparency Agenda at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000.

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