To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his 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 this period. (146338)

This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which private consultancy firms (a) his Department and (b) agencies which report to his Department engaged in each of the last three years; which programmes or projects each firm worked on; and what the approximate cost to the Department or agency concerned was of each engagement. (155877)

This information could be collected only at disproportionate cost.