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To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was paid by the Department for Work and Pensions and its agencies to (a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) KPMG, (c) Deloitte, (d) Ernst and Young, (e) Grant Thornton, (f) BDO Stoy Hayward, (g) Baker Tilly, (h) Smith and Williamson, (i) Tenon Group, (j) PKF, (k) McKinsey and Company, and (l) Accenture, in each of the past five years for which information is available; how they monitor contracts with those firms; and how the department reports (1) during, and (2) at the end of, contracts to Buying Solutions. [HL2092]
The information is in the table below:
Supplier 2009-10 (£) (Spend to Jan 2010) 2008-09 (£) 2007-08 (£) 2006-07 (£) 2005-06 (£) PricewaterhouseCoopers 9,062,391 9,175,124 9,393,652 8,554,212 8,005,454 KPMG 577,087 480,886 257,884 664,795 2,245,354 Deloitte 16,314,493 24,742,902 22,869,712 21,712,082 5,865,644 Ernst & Young 251,074 54,214 59,150 0 0 Grant Thornton UK LLP 6,250 100,881 128,161 0 0 BDO Stoy Hayward 0 0 0 0 0 Baker Tilly 0 0 2,275 0 0 Smith & Williamson 59,413 0 0 0 0 Tenon Group 0 0 0 0 0 PKF UK LLP 56 301,891 328,537 869,287 763,505 McKinsey and Company 206,435 0 246,750 3,138,199 188,000 Accenture* 71,566,531 106,177,482 94,936,273 76,169,049 114,719,096
*Accenture spend is significantly higher as it provides application development services for the department's major IT systems.
Consultancy and development contracts are managed by a named project sponsor within the business unit commissioning the consultancy project. This is supported by a formal process which ensures that the project is monitored throughout its lifecycle and requires ratings on performance. Individual commercial agreements are not reported to Buying Solutions.