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Departments: Consultants

Volume 463: debated on Monday 23 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Department spent on (a) management consultants and (b) other external consultants and advisers in each year since 2000; and which of these consultants undertook work for the Department with a total contractual value in excess of £10 million over that period. (146327)

DWP was formed in June 2001. The following table provides spend on external consultants in each year, broken down between management and IT consultancy and includes spend on legal consultancy for 2006-07. Totals prior to 2006-07 could be obtained only by incurring disproportionate costs.

£ million1

Description

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Management consultancy

23.79

47.57

223.35

98.64

77.59

116.77

IT consultancy

70.67

93.47

83.37

69.73

52.70

45.85

Legal

16.40

1 Costs inclusive of VAT

For the second part of this question management information records are only available since April 2004. Contracts for consultancy related services with a total value of over £10 million awarded since this date are in the following table.

£ million

Supplier

Contract value

Booz Allen Hamilton

86.79

IBM UK Ltd

49.68

Capgemini UK plc

26.25

PA Consulting Services Limited

25.58

Deloitte MCS Limited

10.31