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To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was paid by the Ministry of Defence and its agencies to (a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) KPMG, (c) Deloitte, (d) Ernst & Young, (e) Grant Thornton, (f) BDO Stoy Hayward, (g) Baker Tilly, (h) Smith & 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. [HL2096]
The Ministry of Defence Financial Management Shared Service Centre (FMSSC) contracts database shows that payments have been made over the past five complete financial years to the companies listed in the following table. The amounts shown have been rounded to the nearest £1 million.
Company 2004-05 (£m) 2005-06 (£m) 2006-07 (£m) 2007-08 (£m) 2008-09 (£m) Ernst Young • • 1 1 4 Deloitte 3 3 8 9 Grant Thorton 0 0 • 0 KPMG 3 2 3 9 7 Accenture • • 0 • 0 PricewaterhouseCoopers 5 5 5 4 5 BDO Stoy Hayward 0 0 0 • 0 Mckinsey & Co 13 19 2 • 0 Smith & Williamsons 0 • 0 0 0
• - Under £1 million
0 - No payments made in period
There are no records of payments being made to Baker Tilly, Tenon Group or PKF.
To monitor and assess the compliance and performance of individual contracts against a defined requirement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) incorporates milestones, critical success factors, performance indicators, and contract completion conditions, and conducts project evaluations.
MoD is not required to report this spend data to Buying Solutions.