To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on services from Waverley Management Consultants in the past three years; and who within the Department has used the reports prepared by the firm. (118302)

Waverley Management Consultants were awarded a contract in February 2006 by the Department for £15,000 to develop a scenario planning toolkit. The toolkit was published on the internet in January 2007 at the following address

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/futures/secsceniss/.

The toolkit provides policymakers and other stakeholders with resources they need to explore scenarios and use them to support their own decision making.