Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons his Department's Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14 has not yet been published; and when that report is due to be published.
Answered by Helen Grant
DCMS’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14 was published on Wednesday 29th October.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by her Department in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid.
Answered by Helen Grant
The 10 professional services firms that were paid the most in 2013/14 are listed in the table below:
Supplier Name | Total paid in 2013-14 (£) |
KPMG LLP | 1,934,209.35 |
Pinsent Masons | 950,789.80 |
Local Partnerships | 429,919.24 |
Grant Thornton UK LLP | 401,867.88 |
Regeneris Consulting Ltd | 75,187.00 |
Andrew Dumbreck Media Limited | 62,165.60 |
National Centre for Social Research | 70,732.00 |
Deloitte (LLP No 2 a/c) | 49,480.00 |
CLAS Co-operative Ltd | 29,820.00 |
SQW Limited | 29,413.00 |
These are unaudited figures from the Department's financials systems, net of recoverable VAT. The department uses professional services firms for a variety of purposes. In addition to consultancy services, they include expenditure on external legal support and advice on programmes, research fieldwork, evaluation, specialist technical advice and the provision of interim managers. Legal services from the Treasury Solicitors and providers of recruitment services have been excluded in order to arrive at a list of firms that are predominantly providers of consultancy.