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Consultants

Volume 454: debated on Monday 4 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which external consultants were used by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies in relation to (i) private finance initiatives and (ii) public-private partnerships in 2005-06; and what the (A) nature and (B) cost of the work was in each case. (103630)

Information about the external consultants used by the Department and its agencies in 2005-06 to advise on Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) is set out in the following table. Details of the companies with whom PFI and PPP deals themselves have been agreed are available on Partnerships UK’s (PUK) website.

Agency

Consultant

Nature of work

Cost (£)

PFI

DEFRA

Davis Langdon and Everest

Cambridge Eastbrook PFI contract—financial advice

1,500

DEFRA

Eversheds

Cambridge Eastbrook PFI contract—legal advice

2,500

DEFRA

Partnerships UK

Nottingham County Council and Cornwall County Council Waste PFI: Commercial Negotiation Support for Standardisation of PFI Contracts 3 (SoPCS) work

191,722

DEFRA

Partnerships UK

Formal training of DEFRA staff:

5,604

Introduction to the Project Review Group’s (PRG) waste PFI assessment criteria

DEFRA

Partnerships UK

Generic PFI Work: Interpretation and adaptation of HM Treasury’s generic PFI Value for Money (VfM) Stage 2 tool to the Waste PFI sector

14,666

DEFRA

Jacobs UK Ltd.

Generic Waste PFI: Review of Local Authority Waste Disposal Companies and their role in future procurement

759

DEFRA

Partnerships UK

Generic PFI Work: Interpretation and adaptation of HM Treasury’s generic PFI Value for Money (VfM) Stage 2 tool to the Waste PFI sector

2,371

DEFRA

RPS Group Plc.

DEFRA PFI related research on Refuse Derived Fuel

11,750

DEFRA

Deloitte M C S Ltd.

Review of Dorset Waste PFI Outline Business Case

16,433

DEFRA

KPMG

Consultancy on Waste PFI Projects

70,000

DEFRA

Eunomia Research and Consulting Ltd.

Consultancy on Waste PFI Projects

18,019

DEFRA

Jacobs UK Ltd.

Generic Waste PFI: Benchmarking of Waste PFI Infrastructure management costs

28,130

DEFRA

KPMG

Waste PFI: Review and Financial Assessment of Cheshire County Council Waste PFI Outline Business Case

24,239

DEFRA

Public Private Partnership Programme

Consultancy on Waste PFI Projects

17,827

DEFRA

Juniper Consultancy Services Ltd.

Generic Waste PFI: Energy from Waste and the Review of Renewable Obligations Certificates: Discussion Paper

2,115

PPP

British Waterways

Nabarro Nathanson

Gloucester Quays—Legal Advice

72,505

British Waterways

Ernst and Young

Gloucester Quays—Financial Advice

33,040

Environment Agency

Partnerships UK

Development of a commercialisation strategy.

25,000