Department for Education: Consultants
(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of consultants advising his Department in each financial year from 2017-18 to 2020-21.
The Department’s consultancy expenditure is presented in the table below by each financial year as requested from 2017 to 2020.
DfE Consultancy Expenditure | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
£M | £M | £M | |
Department | 6.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 |
Agencies | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
Non-departmental public bodies | 6.0 | 5.2 | - |
Total | 12.1 | 14.6 | 13.1 |
Expenditure for financial year 2020/21 has not been included as the financial year commenced as of 1 April 2020 and this information has not been released in the public domain. For financial year 19/20 the Department has not published the annual accounts and is waiting sign off and audit approval to release the data. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic an extension for the submission of annual accounts has been applied across Government Departments.