To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which company has been appointed as a consultant on human relations in the Forensic Science Service. (284503)

The only major consultancy services have been obtained from Deloitte (who assisted the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in 2008 with its preliminary thinking on business transformation). Deloitte have also been FSS's pension advisers for some time. FSS has used a number of specialist providers in a smaller way to support the design of the business transformation programme. The transformation team itself has also been staffed by a number of agency and interim specialists to work alongside and train in-house resources.