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Mr. Tim Smith
To ask the Prime Minister if she will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by the Cabinet Office in 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.
The Prime Minister
The management and computer consultancy contracts awarded by the Cabinet Office, in the calendar year 1987, are as follows:
| Firm | Assignment |
| BGM Consultants | Identification of core skills in clerical grades |
| Diane Bailey Associates | Preparation of a Stress Management Training Pack |
| ITS Ltd | Guide to conducting Training Reviews |
| Systems Concepts Ltd | Training Information Communications Study—Feasibility Study |
| John Childs | Training Information Communications Study—Customer needs survey |
Firm
| Assignment
|
| Anne Hughes Hallet | Research on undergraduate attitudes to a career in HM Tax Inspectorate |
| B. O'Connor | Selection procedure design (engineer recruitment) |
| National Foundation for Educational Research | Aptitude test analysis |
| PE Consulting Services | Study into future development of the Civil Service College Administrative Computer System |
| Centre for Training and Evaluation Studies | Evaluation of the self instruction training package for the new staff appraisal system |
| Richard Williams | Equal Opportunities monitoring project |
| Business Research Unit | Evaluation of staff attitudes to the new staff appraisal system |
| Crow Associates | Research on computers in personnel management |
| Keith Robertson | Consultancy for the 'Managing Absence' project |
| Diane Bailey Associates | Survey on presentation of Occupational Welfare Service to management and staff in the Civil Service |
| Institute of Manpower Studies | Advice on manpower planning and computers in personnel |
| John Rowley | Production of guidelines for managers and trade unionists on job satisfaction projects and a summary of the guidelines for staff |
| W. O'Keefe | Study of purchasing and stores activities (Cabinet Office) |
| Hay Management Consultants | A study of the feasibility of short service assignments in the Science Group |
| Purchasing Index (UK) Ltd1 | Development of the Central Unit on Purchasing database |
| Frank Griffiths Associates1 | Advice in connection with the Institute of Civil Engineers review of conditions of contract |
| R W White1 | Review of arrangements for Purchasing and Supply function in Government |
Name of firm
| Assignment
|
| CMG Information Systems: | Development of a new Administrative Computer System for Her Majesty's Inspectorate. |
| CCTA: | Education Information study. |
| Research Services Limited: | Undergraduate income and expenditure survey. |
| Coopers and Lybrand: | Advice on financial delegation to schools. |
| Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co: | Review of the preparation and production of inspection reports. |
| Spicer and Pegler Associates: | Review of accounting procedures at one of the Department's grant-aided bodies. |
| Deloitte Haskins and Sells: | Financial management advice and assistance to the University Grants Committee. |
| Deloitte Haskins and Sells: | Review of audit controls over teachers' pensions (payments and contributions). |
| Loughborough Consultants Limited: | Analysis of universities' responses to the Jarratt report. |
| BIS Applied Systems Limited: | Office Systems Strategy-telecommunications study. |
Firm
| Assignment
|
| E R Farnbridge and C Evans1 | Review of Supply and Service Agreements between departments and the Central Purchasing Agencies |
| DF Collins1 | Advice on Written Guidance |
1 Costs for these studies were shared with other Government Departments. | |