The Ministry’s provisional expenditure on external consultants in 2008-09 is £53,600,000. This is disclosed in the Ministry of Justice departmental annual report 2008-09 on page 72 which can be found in the link:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/justice-annual-report-2008-09.htm
This amount covers the Ministry of Justice HQ, HM Courts Service, Tribunals Service, and the National Offender Management Service. This figure is an early estimate and will be subject to change.
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) collates data on consultancy expenditure as part of its Consultancy Value Programme which assists Departments in driving greater value from Government’s use of consultants.
The finalised figures for 2008-09 will be available on the OGC website (see link) in due course. A manual data collection exercise for this period is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2009 with the data expected at 31 October 2009.
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/professional_services_consultancy_value_programme.asp
The information requested for each project or programme is not held centrally and would involve a manual trawl of each unit at a disproportionate cost.