Ministry of Defence: Accountancy
(asked on 2nd December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all contracts, consultancies or other services placed with the accountancy firms (i) Deloitte & Touche, (ii) Ernst & Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by the Department, including predecessor Departments and its agencies.
Since 2010, the Ministry of Defence has placed almost 500 contracts with the specified companies. As such, a full departmental response could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Providing a breakdown of contract value by year would also result in double counting due to contracts being open over multiple years. However, the table below provides total payments to each named accountancy firm by financial year from 2010-11 to 2021-22:
Year | Deloitte | Ernst & Young | KPMG | Price Water House Coopers |
2010-11 | £8,168,445.53 | £2,683,161.84 | £1,728,593.60 | £1,791,963.49 |
2011-12 | £10,951,834.45 | £491,725.31 | £10,314,788.86 | £2,246,947.04 |
2012-13 | £19,340,635.84 | £3,654,767.98 | £13,045,832.64 | £5,429,556.75 |
2013-14 | £29,303,187.02 | £17,258,840.61 | £25,308,805.37 | £12,842,676.27 |
2014-15 | £20,013,586.16 | £17,524,671.44 | £39,337,383.47 | £10,609,715.97 |
2015-16 | £15,202,474.72 | £19,053,613.65 | £36,521,054.51 | £17,586,800.77 |
2016-17 | £20,233,808.07 | £19,446,071.68 | £35,339,261.27 | £27,606,130.15 |
2017-18 | £27,462,233.65 | £9,152,441.79 | £41,899,779.10 | £17,889,239.14 |
2018-19 | £15,678,160.05 | £4,382,347.73 | £34,182,223.95 | £11,665,882.56 |
2019-20 | £26,731,275.78 | £6,202,441.02 | £53,492,911.25 | £10,701,954.37 |
2020-21 | £28,581,384.49 | £3,018,831.14 | £42,684,056.10 | £16,341,632.65 |
2021-22 | £35,256,836.67 | £7,559,486.41 | £25,266,455.76 | £10,215,022.30 |
Total | £256,923,862.43 | £110,428,400.60 | £359,121,145.88 | £144,927,521.46 |
It should be noted that the composition of the totals has varied over time. For example, the payments by procurement card are included from 2011/12 onwards, and expenditure by DSTL and the UK Hydrographic Office is included from 2013-14 onwards.