Environment Agency: Consultants

Bob Spink
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much the Environment Agency spent on consultants in each of the last five years.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The Environment Agency delivers major investment programmes through flood risk and civil engineering work. Expenditure includes the feasibility, design and supervision of these projects which are developed through accessing specialist engineering companies.

The following table shows total Environment Agency expenditure on consultants in each of the last five years. This expenditure includes regional and national civil engineering consultants, water management engineering consultants, environmental policy consultants and management consultants.

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|                                                      |2004-05       |20005-06      |2006-07       |2007-08       |2008-09       |
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|Regional civil engineering/environmental consultancy  |29,083,263.68 |25,391,089.61 |27,890,749.09 |21,012,252.52 |27,757,651.67 |
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|NCPMS civil engineering/environmental consultancy     |42,162,089.61 |36,131,701.10 |35,326,920.35 |27,134,018.64 |41,946,590.04 |
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|Water management engineering/environmental consultancy|17,240,988.37 |17,019,970.91 |17,932,634.73 |17,011,410.63 |18,944,069.07 |
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|Environmental policy consultants                      |29,619,337.66 |22,086,207.51 |25,112,247.92 |31,655,315.86 |30,121,357.01 |
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|Management consultants                                |5,228,346.70  |6,006,599.05  |4,174,035.10  |3,413,657.41  |3,306,945.63  |
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|Total                                                 |123,334,026.02|106,635,568.18|110,436,587.19|100,226,655.06|122,076,613.42|
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