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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Accountancy
Friday 9th December 2022

Asked by: Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

Please see the attachment provided for a comprehensive list for each of the organisations requested covering the data sets requested in the PQ.

Further Information regarding the contracts can be found on gov.uk’s Contract Finder Service located here.

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