The Home Office's expenditure on consultancy (including that of its Executive agencies) in the year 2007-08 was £95.6 million. This represents 7 per cent. of overall Home Office expenditure on third party goods and services. It is also 36 per cent. less than in 2006-07, reflecting a desire to reduce consultancy expenditure. The expenditure by Home Office NDPBs on consultancy in 2007-08 is tabled as follows:
£ Independent Police Complaints Commission 243,848 National Policing Improvement Agency 71,400,000 Security Industry Agency 81,967 Serious Organised Crime Agency 1,615,000
It is not possible to give a detailed breakdown by consultancy, but the majority of this expenditure is on major programmes (e.g. eBorders, national identity scheme) where most of the work is contracted out to specialist contractors.