Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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 each year since 2010-11 by the Office.
Answered by James Davies
None. The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has not placed any contracts with A) Deloitte & Touche, (B) Ernst & Young, (C) KPMG and (D) PricewaterhouseCoopers in the period 2010-11 to date.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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 James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The information is not held centrally in the requested format, and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
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 - Minister of State (Department 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.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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 Steve Baker - Minister of State (Northern Ireland Office)
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
The Department does not hold records of contracts held before this period. Prior to 2016, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission held the following contracts:
Reports available from the Department’s accounting system are available from the 2017-18 financial year. The Department has not paid for services from Deloitte & Touche or PricewaterhouseCoopers during this period. Amounts spent with Ernst & Young and KPMG are detailed below. These were all for external training provider services.
Financial year | Ernst & Young (£) | KPMG (£) |
2017-18 | 0 | 20,537 |
2018-19 | 0 | 14,836 |
2019-20 | 0 | 22,441 |
2020-21 | 0 | 33,834 |
2021-22 | 7,661 | 15,523 |
2022-23 (to 31 October) | 2,220 | 665 |
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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 Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland
None. The Scotland Office has not placed any contracts with A) Deloitte & Touche, (B) Ernst & Young, (C) KPMG and (D) PricewaterhouseCoopers in the period 2010-11 to date.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 Jesse Norman
Details of the nature and award value of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Each departmental agency is responsible for their contract data.
The Department for Transport have completed an internal search for the information and can confirm the following spend on consultancy services with the following suppliers:
Financial Year | Deloitte LLP | Ernst & Young Limited | KPMG | Pricewaterhouse |
2010-11 | £200,000.00 | £0.00 | £1.00 | £250,001.00 |
2011-12 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £750,000.00 | £4,362,793.00 |
2012-13 | £1,700.00 | £350,000.00 | £90,000.00 | £3,791,587.00 |
2013-14 | £568,544.00 | £1,959,323.00 | £330,000.00 | £10,293,018.00 |
2014-15 | £128,832.00 | £1,805,743.00 | £2,347,400.00 | £2,628,688.00 |
2015-16 | £36,559.00 | £2,600,000.00 | £2,323,615.00 | £458,880.00 |
2016-17 | £79,463.00 | £623,000.00 | £27,420,475.60 | £2,089,591.00 |
2017-18 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £1,200,000.00 | £1,617,141.98 |
2018-19 | £6,846,611.21 | £3,350,000.01 | £0.00 | £5,138,235.00 |
2019-20 | £4,716,844.00 | £1,426,181.39 | £4,921,695.00 | £880,630.91 |
2020-21 | £4,111,001.00 | £15,925,332.00 | £5,364,551.48 | £3,084,509.00 |
2021-22 | £14,310,091.57 | £2,594,875.00 | £17,663,791.00 | £760,778.00 |
2022-23 | £1,281,462.00 | £2,510,000.00 | £3,298,684.00 | £522,926.88 |
Total | £32,281,107.78 | £33,144,454.40 | £65,710,213.08 | £35,878,779.77 |
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, 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 Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for International Trade (DIT) was established in 2016. Contracts above £10,000 for DIT and its Agency, the Trade Remedies Authority, are published on Contracts Finder.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 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 Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of post-2016 Government contracts above £10,000 can found on Contracts Finder. https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Information prior to 2016 is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 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 Dehenna Davison
In line with Government transparency requirements, since 2016 we have published details of our contracts on Contracts Finder. Further information is available here.
Asked by: John Cryer (Labour - Leyton and Wanstead)
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 - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
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.