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Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list each of the management consultancies operating in his Department, the title of the project, the finishing date and the cost (a) currently and (b) in 1990 and excluding any in (a).
Mr. Jack
Details of current studies and those undertaken since April 1990 are in the tables. The cost of individual studies is not given, as that could breach commercial confidentiality, but total expenditure on these studies in the financial year 1990–91 to date is £2·94 million.
Mr. MacGregor
Overseas visits undertaken by the Home Affairs Committee in the last 12 months and the airlines used are as follows:
| Current consultancies | |
| Consultancy firm | Project |
| Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge | Headquarters relocation project |
| Admiral Management Services Limited | Quality management systems |
| Andersen Consulting | Training project |
| Andersen Consulting | Contributions unit development |
| Arthur D. Allwright Associates | Purchasing consultancy |
| Baddeley Associates Limited | Communicating the operational strategy |
| Baddeley Associates Limited | Code and instruction review |
| Baddeley Associates Limited | Headquarters review team—consultancy support |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Corporate efficiency |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Local factors model |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Information technology services agency manpower model |
| Cavendish Tricorne | War pensions |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Local pay additions |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Performance related pay |
| Christine Gratton | Women in management courses |
| Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte | Creation of the purchasing and supply manual |
Consultancy firm
| Project
|
| DPS Consultancy Limited | Retirement counselling courses |
| Dun & Bradstreet International | Purchasing consultancy |
| Equalities Associates | Equal opportunities seminars |
| Ernst and Young | Integrated complementing system (development) |
| Ernst and Young | Departmental information systems strategy scoping study (headquarters units) |
| Hadley Hunter | Overpayments recovery |
| Lloyd Northover | Corporate image for Department of Social Services property |
| Meena Goyal | Housing and community charge |
| Meena Goyal | Benefits project work |
| Mick Tyler | Integrated complementing system |
| Mr. John Mesher | Statement on the principles of trusteeship |
| PA Consultancy Group | Enhancement of the MMD—BMD database (Nottingham staff resource unit) |
| PA Consulting Group | Management reviews |
| PA Consulting Group | Review of the Department of Social Services central office management |
| PA Consulting Group | Human resource needs |
| Peat Marwick McLintock | Counselling for staff leaving under the voluntary redundancy scheme |
| Peat Marwick McLintock | Selection and recruitment of the benefit agency's training manager |
Other consultancies in 1990–91
| ||
Consultancy firm
| Project
| Finishing date
|
| Anita Ram | Selected International Comparisons of Household Incomes | October 1990 |
| Baddeley Associates Limited | Director of Social Security Operations (Change Management Project—Managers Charter) | April 1990 |
| Ben Williams Consultants | Customer Service Training | November 1990 |
| British Standards Institute | Corporate Image for DSS Property | May 1990 |
| CAS Marketing Services | Purchasing Consultancy (Engagement Purchasing Director) | April 1990 |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Contributions Unit Development (Human Resource Planning) | September 1990 |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Overbearing Model | October 1990 |
| Cavendish Tricorne | Integrated Pay and Personnel Project | October 1990 |
| Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency | Departmental Information Systems Strategy Scoping Study | June 1990 |
| Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency | Financial Information Strategy Project (Annual Review) | October 1990 |
| Civil Service College | Director of Social Security Operations | April 1990 |
| Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte | Agencies Systems Planning | August 1990 |
| Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte | Agencies Systems Planning (Training Seminar for Leaders) | May 1990 |
| Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte | HQ Relocation Project | November 1990 |
Consultancy firm
| Project
|
| Perspective Technica | Quality management systems |
| Price Waterhouse | Contributions unit development (human resources personnel strategy project) |
| Price Waterhouse | Administrative resource management system unit costs and budgeting |
| Projecteam | Headquarters relocation project |
| Property Holdings | Headquarters relocation project |
| Public Arts | Headquarters relocation project |
| Redhouse Lane | Headquarters relocation project |
| SERCO Limited | Purchasing consultancy |
| Symonds Facilities Management plc | Headquarters relocation project |
| TOP-IX Limited | Administrative resource management system work measurement pilot exercise, keywork library |
| The Harry Mitchell College | Administrative resource management system work measurement pilot exercise |
| Touche Ross | Benefits agency implementation work (MIS and finance) |
| Touche Ross | Contributions unit development (FIS and MIS) |
| Touche Ross | Performance indicators for resettlement units |
| University College London | Psychologist for the forms design unit |
| Warwick University | National Insurance contributions yield |
Consultancy firm
| Project
| Finishing date
|
| Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte | Procurement Management Information System | December 1990 |
| Enator | Performance Integrated Monitoring for Managers System | April 1990 |
| Enator | Integrated Complementing System | June 1990 |
| Enator | OPSTRAT Project | October 1990 |
| Enator | Integrated Monitoring System | December 1990 |
| Ernst and Young | Integrated Complementing System | May 1990 |
| Ernst and Young | Departmental Information Systems Strategy DISSC Impact Analysis | October 1990 |
| Ernst and Young | Self Investment by Pensions Schemes | September 1990 |
| Hadley Hunter | Lone Parenthood Study | July 1990 |
| Handley Walker | Post Office Counters—Fee Negotiations | April 1990 |
| Handley Walker | Post Office Counters—Fee Negotiations (Stage 2) | October 1990 |
| Handley Walker | Purchasing of Welfare Milk | November 1990 |
| Logica UK Limited | Integrated Complementing System (Integrated Monitoring System) | November 1990 |
| London Economics | Self Investment by Pensions Schemes | June 1990 |
| Market and Opinion Research International | Headquarters Relocation Project | August 1990 |
| Mass Observation | Relocation Assessment | April 1990 |
| Nationwide Anglia Relocation | HQ Relocation Project | October 1990 |
| Nigel Parry | HQ Relocation Project | September 1990 |
| Office for Public Management Ltd (King's Fund College) | Director of Social Security Operations | April 1990 |
| P-E Inbucon | Survey of Local Authorities (Community Charge Benefit Monitoring Exercise) | August 1990 |
| PA Consulting Group | Rewards Strategy | October 1990 |
| PA Consulting Group | Director of Social Security Operations—Change Management (Rewards Strategy) | April 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Integrated Complementing System | April 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Integrated Complementing System (Development) | June 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Research into Costs in Residential Care and Nursing Homes | September 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Benefits Agency Finance Director (Selection and Recruitment of) | November 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Training Requirements | November 1990 |
| Price Waterhouse | Executive Information Systems Feasibility Study | January 1991 |
| Professor Steven Haberman | Self Investment by Pensions Schemes | July 1990 |
| Sema Group | Social Fund Support | June 1990 |
| Touche Ross | Administrative Resource Management System (Complementing) | October 1990 |
| Touche Ross | Integrated Complementing System (Maintenance) | May 1990 |
| Touche Ross | Lone Parenthood Study | July 1990 |
| Touche Ross | War Pensions | October 1990 |
| Touche Ross | Asset Management | November 1990 |
| Whitegates Estate | Headquarters Relocation Project | October 1990 |