To ask the Attorney-General if he will indicate which five consultancy firms have received most contracts from his Department (a) by number of contracts and (b) monetary value in the last five years for which figures are available. [33443]
The information indicates, for each of the Departments for which I am responsible, (a) those consultancy firms with which the greatest number of consultancy contracts were concluded1 and (b) those consultancy firms with the contracts of greatest total monetary value2, in each case for the five years 1990–91 to 1994–95.
Number of contracts
| Monetary value £ thousand
| |
Serious Fraud Office
| ||
| (a) 1. (ACT) Network SI Group Ltd. | 3 | |
| 2. Amtec Consulting Ltd. | 2 | |
| Digitus Ltd. | 2 | |
| Hedra Ltd. | 2 | |
| Hoskyns Group plc3 | 2 | |
| Insight Consulting | 2 | |
| Morgan Lovell Ltd. | 2 | |
| SHL Systemhouse Inc. | 2 | |
| (b) 1. Digitus Ltd. | 154 | |
| 2. Hoskyns Group plc | 121.2 | |
| 3. Hedra Ltd. | 73.4 | |
| 4. Ernst and Young | 58.8 | |
| 5. Central Office of Information | 56.3 | |
Crown Prosecution Service
| ||
| (a) 1. Shapes Graphic Design | 8 | |
| 2. PE International | 6 | |
| 3. Touche-Ross | 6 | |
| 4. Infact Ltd. | 4 | |
| Sequelogic Ltd. | 4 | |
| (b)4 | ||
Treasury Solicitor's Department
| ||
| (a) 1. BDO Consulting | 6 | |
| 2. Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency | 5 | |
| 3. J. Blair | 3 | |
| 4. Pannell Kerr Forster Associates | 2 | |
| Recruitment Advisory Service | 2 | |
| (b) 1. BDO Consulting | 601.3 | |
| 2. Pannell Kerr Forster Associates | 78.8 | |
| 3. Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency | 61.3 | |
| 4. J. Blair | 53.1 | |
| 5. Recruitment Advisory Service | 22.3 | |
Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers
| ||
| Nil | ||
1 Figures in (a) give the number of contracts entered into. | ||
2 Figures in (b) give the total monetary value of the contracts concerned. | ||
3 Includes ABT International. | ||
4 This information is available only at disproportionate cost. | ||
To ask the Attorney-General how many contracts his Department has had with consultants; and what has been the total cost in each of the last five years. [33500]
The information is set out in the table.
| £ thousand | |||||
| Department | 1990–91 | 1991–92 | 1992–93 | 1993–94 | 1994–95 |
| Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Crown Prosecution Service | 477(7) | 471(12) | 665(24) | 693(52) | 1699(52) |
| Serious Fraud Office | 171(4) | 88(2) | 112(9) | 149(6) | 1242(10) |
| Treasury Solicitor's Department | Not known | 54(6) | 335(8) | 428(14) | 125(8) |
| 1 Unaudited | |||||
Note:
Figures in brackets represent the number of contracts that year.
To ask the Attorney-General if he will estimate the cost of employing consultants in connection with privatisation programmes in which his Department has been engaged since 1980. [33463]
Nil.
To ask the Attorney-General how many contracts and for what total sum were let out by his Department and agencies for which it is responsible to (a) Coopers and Lybrand and its subsidiaries, (b) Peat Marwick and its subsidiaries, (c) Ernst and Young and its subsidiaries, (d) Arthur Andersen and its subsidiaries, (e) Price Waterhouse and its subsidiaries, (f) Grant Thornton and its subsidiaries, (g) Stoy Hayward and its subsidiaries, (h) Robson Rhodes and its subsidiaries and (i) Pannell Kerr Forster and its subsidiaries for privatisation, market testing, management advice, accounting, audit, consultancy and other services in 1993–94 and 1994–95. [33920]
The information with respect to the firms used by the Departments and agency for which I am responsible is as follows:
| 1993–94 | 1994–95 | |
| Serious Fraud Office | ||
| Cooper and Lybrand | 1,421 (0) | 361 (1) |
| Peat Marwick | 612 (0) | 282 (1) |
| Ernst and Young | 186 (1) | 217 (1) |
| Price Waterhouse | 88 (2) | 48 (1) |
| Grant Thornton | 59 (0) | 261 (0) |
| Robson Rhodes | 8 (0) | 106 (2) |
| Treasury Solicitor's Department | ||
| Arthur Anderson | 356 (3) | 8 (2) |
| Pannell Kerr Forster | — | 79 (2) |
| Crown Prosecution Service | ||
| Coopers and Lybrand | — | 12 (1) |
| Ernst and Young | — | 37 (2) |
| Price Waterhouse | — | 17 (1) |
| Government Property Lawyers | ||
| Coopers and Lybrand | 1 (1) | — |
| Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers | ||
| Nil |
Notes:
1. Figures before the brackets represent expenditure in £000, to the nearest £1,000, on, contracts both new and continuing during the financial year in question.
2. Figures in brackets represent the number of new contracts entered into during the financial year in question.