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Northern Ireland Office: Consultants

Volume 716: debated on Monday 11 January 2010

Question

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consultants the Northern Ireland Office has employed since 1 January 2008; for what tasks; and at what costs. [HL900]

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the following tables provide a breakdown of the type of consultancy provided and the costs in each of the past two financial years.

Expenditure on consultancy in the Northern Ireland Office has reduced year on year for the past four financial years, and in 2008-09 was 45 per cent less than in 2005-06.

NIO and Executive Agencies Financial Year 2007-08

Management

NI Youth Forum

£1,007

Anderson Spratt

£17,049

Kairos

£8,500

Deloitte

£24,663

FGS McClure Watters

£14,000

Capita Learning & Dev

£1,415

Grafton Recruitment

£12,756

Odgers Ray and Berndston

£35,281

Jenkinson Consulting

£1,800

Others/Individual Contracts

£10,176

Cumulative total

£126,618

Financial

Disability Action

£4,179

Moore Stephens (CJINI)

£2,926

PKF Consultancy

£50,878

PWC

£60,350

Cumulative total

£118,333

Assurance

T&S International

£23,262

UKAS Accreditation

£2,203

Jenkison Consulting

£895

Others/Individual Contracts

£11,515

Cumulative total

£37,875

Research

Quality Business Management

£5,423

Others/Individual Contracts

£52,517

Cumulative total

£57,940

Marketing

GPS

£2,500

Coppernoise

£1,145

Label One Ltd

£3,273

Peninsula Print & Design Ltd

£998

Page Setup

£1,262

Milward Brown Ulster

£21,385

Cumulative total

£30,562

General Consultancy

Carter Globe associates

£36,000

Myles Danker Estate Man Advice

£2,500

Quest Consulting

£17,000

Williams & Shaw

£1,000

BDP

£8,267

L'Estrange and Brett

£9,598

Others/Individual Contracts

£61,106

Cumulative total

£135,471

IT Consultancy

Mott MacDonald

£295,220

Deloitte

£22,770

PWC (CJINI)

£5,170

Microsoft

£48,000

ICS

£20,000

Fujitsu

£513,000

iB Solutions

£22,000

NDI

£20,000

Selex

£23,778

ICS

£29,150

Real Estate Management

£3,990

Cumulative total

£1,003,078

Total Expenditure 07/08

£1,509,877

NIO and Executive Agencies Financial Year 2008-09

Management

MacDonald Stephen Consultancy Ltd

£33,044

Deloitte

£57,554

KPMG

£22,000

Hays Healthcare Consultancy

£20,139

Kairos

£8,500

Social Research Centre Ltd

£10,315

Carter Goble Lee

£32,400

SRB Consultants

£4,469

PWC

£5,220

Others/Individual Contracts

£87,858

Cumulative total

£281,499

Financial

PWC

£60,853

BDP

£29,719

Deloitte

£11,260

Clarke Shipway

£8,721

Cumulative total

£110,553

Assurance

OCPA

£1,393

OGC

£13,600

Grant Thornton

£19,650

Key Forensic Services

£43,436

Others/Individual Contracts

£21,979

Cumulative total

£100,058

Research

Williamson Consulting

£1,884

Cumulative total

£1,884

Marketing

N/A

0

General Consultancy

PWC

£89,776

Fitzsimons Kinney Mallon Sols

£532

Hamilton Architects

£1,500

Grant Thornton

£19,815

DLA Piper

£37,519

Hays Construction & Property

£9,769

Others/Individual Contracts

£134,516

Cumulative total

£293,427

IT Consultancy

Deloitte

£20,000

Fluent Technology

£1,050

Fujitsu

£233,000

Lagan

£5,000

ICS

£40,000

Mott Macdonald

£212,137

Selex

£11,000

Biznet

£4,994

Cumulative total

£527,181

Total Expenditure 08/09

1,314,602