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Written Question
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Accountancy
Tuesday 13th December 2022

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms (A) Deloitte & Touche, (B) Ernst & Young, (C) KPMG and (D) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by (1) their Department, (2) any predecessor Departments and (3) departmental agencies.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

Since 2016, details of government contracts are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector.

Contract information, from 2010 to 2016, is not held centrally in the requested format and it would meet the cost limit to collate the requested data.


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