Home Office: Consultants

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her 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
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 22nd September 2016

The Home Department has approved the engagement of consultancy services over the last three Financial Years as detailed in the table below;

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

FINANCIAL YEARS

2013-2014

2014-2014

2015-2016

PwC

0

0

0

Deloitte

0

3

1

Ernst and Young

0

1

4

KPMG

1

1

0

Other Consulting Firms

6

7

13

The table below details the work commissioned and the approved value in each case;

FINANCIAL YEAR 2013/14

KPMG

1-

Provision of in support of the development of a Strategic Intent & Target Operating Model

£120,000

Other Consulting Firms

1-

Provision of Services to support complex evaluation models for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications programme

£20,000

2-

Consultancy Support for College of Policing Organisational Design Programme

£20,000

3-

Consultancy Support insight into Postal & Freight - Border Force Transformation

£216,875

4-

Consultancy Support Intelligence Capability - Border Force Transformation

£97,447

Consultancy Support to improve National Processes - Border Force Transformation

£433,710

5-

Consultancy Support for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme to help co-ordinate standardisation efforts on the Push to Talk (PTT) application

£20,000

6-

Consultancy support for Project Calais - Improving flow and passenger tracking at the maritime port at Calais

£195,000

FINANCIAL YEAR 2014/15

Deloitte

1-

Consultancy support to the DGIE Strategic Reform - High Value Workstreams

£146.744

2-

Consultancy support to the DGIE Strategic Reform - Relationships and Leveraging

£99,950

3-

Consultancy support to the DGIE Strategic Reform - Enablers and Infrastructure

£190,000

Ernst & Young

1-

Provision of Organisational Design Consultancy

£131,750

KPMG

1-

Consultancy Support for Police Pensions Scheme Advisory Board

£13,397

Other Consulting Firms

1-

Technical Consultancy Support for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme

£1,9947,300

2-

The Provision of Consultancy for The Review of the National Referral Mechanism

£27,300

3-

Provision of Consultancy Specialist Support on Diversifying The Night Time Economy

£64,980

4-

Provision of Consultancy Specialist Support on Diversifying The Night Time Economy

£18,200

5-

Provision of Financial Support and Advice for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme

£150,000

6-

Multi Specialism Programme Delivery Consultancy for the Independent Police Complaints Commission Change Programme

£450,000

7-

ICT Consultancy for the Independent Police Complaints Commission Change Programme

£150,000

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