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Departmental Contracts

Volume 470: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008

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Jim Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) objective and (b) value was of each contract placed with (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG, (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers and (v) PA Consulting by his Department and its agencies in each year since 2004-05. (179029)

Jonathan Shaw

From information held centrally the core Department’s expenditure with Deloitte and Touche, Ernst and Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and PA Consulting in each year since 2004-05 is:

£

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-081

Deloitte and Touche

211,301.44

—

138,269.29

50,078.51

Deloitte M C S Ltd.

2,426,828.66

2,762,458.14

1,157,656.14

4,257,793.24

Ernst and Young

319,222.57

207,405.13

63,767.26

117,500.00

KPMG

769,929.83

861,359.45

934,652.07

150,557.58

P A Consulting Group

6,250,144.71

4,689,108.39

4,326,282.61

516,030.16

PricewaterhouseCoopers

61,758.00

873,003.85

2,478,503.11

211,259.23

1 April to December.

Information on the nature of this expenditure, and on the nature and value of similar expenditure by DEFRA’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies could be provided only at disproportionate costs.