To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent on consultants' advice in relation to Remploy in 2008-09; how much has been so spent in 2009-10 to date; which consultants have been engaged in each year; and how much each has been paid to date. (322790)

The Department's accounting system does not separately identify how much has been spent on consultants’ advice in relation to Remploy, or the names of the consultants that may have given such advice. An exercise to try and obtain such information could be undertaken only at disproportionate cost.