Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what secondments (a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young and (d) KPMG has made to the Department, including predecessor Departments, since 2010; for which (i) periods and (ii) tasks the secondments were made; whether secondments of staff from the Department have been made to those firms; and for which (A) periods and (B) tasks.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information is not centrally held and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
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.
Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
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.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the UK's other Trident missiles have been checked for faults after the failed Trident II D5 missile test in June 2016.
Answered by Michael Fallon
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for North Durham (Kevan Jones) on 23 January 2017 (Official Report, column 23).
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is a cost to the public purse if a Trident D5 missile is defective during a test launch; and whether the defective missile is replaced at the manufacturers expense.
Answered by Michael Fallon
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for North Durham (Kevan Jones) on 23 January 2017 (Official Report, column 23).
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) Lockheed Martin and (b) Draper Engineering have identified the fault to the Trident D5 missile that was test fired in June 2016.
Answered by Michael Fallon
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for North Durham (Kevan Jones) on 23 January 2017 (Official Report, column 23).