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Departmental Contracts

Volume 474: debated on Thursday 3 April 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what contracts were awarded by his Department to (a) KPMG, (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) McKinsey, (e) Deloitte and (f) other consultancy firms in each of the last 12 months; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) value was of each of these contracts. (196584)

Information requested on the purpose and value of every consultancy assignment could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Expenditure by the core-Department with the five firms identified, for the first 10 months of financial year 2007-08, and the financial year 2006-07 is:

£

Vendor

April 2007-January 2008

2006-07

KPMG

150,557.58

934,652.07

PricewaterhouseCoopers

155,593.37

2,478,503.11

Ernst and Young

213,790.23

63,767.26

McKinsey

276,125.00

Deloitte and Touche

48,521.63

138,269.29

Deloitte MCS

5,198,320.10

1,157,656.14