Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Matt Warman
The 21-22 Annual Report & Accounts figures are subject to audit and expected to be published in early November. We are unable to provide data on consultancy spend prior to the conclusion of the audit.
The 20-21 consultancy spend as per DCMS 20-21 published accounts (page 135) was £16.6m. The listing for the £16.6m is set out below and is net of a credit of £1.914m on reversed expenditure.
The 19-20 consultancy spend as per DCMS 19-20 published accounts (page 135) was £3.9m. The listing for the £3.9m is set out below including £0.164m relating to corrections to the data.
Details of all third-party government contracts, including the Supplier, are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector.
20-21 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Amount |
346 Consultancy Limited | 10,080.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 1,000.00 |
ANUBHAV JAIN | 5,000.00 |
Astarte Limited | 1,800.00 |
Bain & Company Inc UK | 906,100.00 |
BBC Accounts Receivable | 13,000.00 |
BDO LLP | 523,076.40 |
Beckford Executives | 500.00 |
Behavioural Insights Ltd | 9,570.00 |
Brick Court Chambers | 5,250.00 |
Cabinet Office (Citi Tr) | 126,718.18 |
Climate Associates | 11,444.00 |
Contemporary Visual Arts Network | 300.00 |
Cornerstone Barristers | - 270.00 |
Corporate Blue Consulting Ltd | 5,700.00 |
David Fogel | 1,500.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 6,600.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 2,512,566.80 |
Dentons UKMEA LLP | 660,208.30 |
Department of Education | 50,400.00 |
Digirep Nigeria Ltd | 12,384.25 |
DLA Piper (Liverpool) | 330,557.49 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | 201,473.12 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (London Office Only) | 32,153.03 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Sheffield Office Only) | 146,966.20 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 8,000.00 |
Economic Insight Limited | 42,000.00 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 19,999.00 |
Ernst & Young (EY) | 2,499,356.70 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 123,880.66 |
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | 111,293.03 |
Faculty Science Limited | 294,500.00 |
Faizal Asher Ismail | 2,500.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 10,212.50 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 5,443.09 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 221,719.00 |
Fujitsu Services Ltd | 133,440.00 |
Georgina Ella Harding Limited | 2,500.00 |
Government Actuary Department | 41,451.17 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 23,851.78 |
Government Legal Department | 17,673.00 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Historic England | - 2,058.34 |
Home Office | 166,725.19 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 13,880.00 |
Intelligent Risks Limited | 6,000.00 |
International Association | 5,628.93 |
Kantar UK Ltd | 23,902.20 |
Knight Frank LLP | 45,000.00 |
KPMG LLP | 159,285.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 16,200.00 |
Linklaters LLP | 136,000.00 |
lnclusion in Arts UK Ltd | 150.00 |
Local Partnerships LLP | 505,031.88 |
Mace Ltd | 47,030.00 |
Modern Art Oxford | 300.00 |
Mr Christopher Knight - 11KBW | 4,301.67 |
Mr George Peretz | 738.00 |
Mr K Latham | 4,999.00 |
NESTA | 26,000.00 |
Oliver Wyman Ltd | 181,500.00 |
ON PURPOSE CAREERS LTD | 30,768.62 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 35,700.00 |
Pentara Consulting Services Ltd | 30,000.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 613,539.58 |
Plum Consulting | 43,250.00 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 3,327,797.80 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | 2,619,488.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 40,800.00 |
Ryan Turner | - 733.50 |
Sarah McFadden | 2,305.20 |
Savills | 4,677.00 |
Scottish Contemporary Art Network - SCAN | 300.00 |
Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service | 10,000.00 |
Slaughter and May | 628,149.24 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLECTIVE LTD | 5,999.99 |
Softcat Plc | 15,245.52 |
Spark Ninety Limited | 45,330.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 35,412.00 |
Tech Grow Limited | 2,500.00 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 324.08 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering | 3,100.00 |
THEM Design Ltd | 4,800.00 |
TLT LLP | 153,119.12 |
University of Cambridge | 4,800.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 1,000.00 |
VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales) | 300.00 |
Veran Performance Ltd | 339,540.00 |
Visual Arts South West | 150.00 |
Webb Search Limited | 17,360.00 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 36,000.00 |
Wysing Arts Charity | 300.00 |
Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts | 300.00 |
Young Samuel Chambers (YSC) Ltd | 14,560.00 |
YunoJuno Ltd | 8,736.00 |
| - 1,941,548.06 |
Grand Total | 16,609,721.82 |
19-20 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Sum of Amount (Posted) |
2T Security Ltd | 72,300.00 |
3 Reasons Ltd | 12,000.00 |
Alistair Lindsay | 16,350.00 |
Annell Howard / Monckton Chambers | - 20.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 8,800.00 |
Birmingham Organising Committee for the | 21,600.00 |
Blackstone Chambers | 1,610.00 |
Bloom Procurement Services Ltd | 75,455.00 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | 14,252.80 |
Classical Numismatic Group LLC | 50.00 |
Climate Associates | 10,760.00 |
Curvestone Ltd | 2,796.00 |
David Fogel | 2,392.25 |
David Miller | 150.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 11,000.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 667,438.40 |
Digital Radio UK (DRUK) | 1,200.00 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | - 570.32 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 12,682.50 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 5,000.00 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 127,406.10 |
Faculty Science Limited | 281,400.00 |
Farrer & Co LLP | 3,882.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 5,700.00 |
Film London | 19,900.00 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 73,783.14 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 99,325.00 |
Global Partners Digital Ltd | 4,000.00 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 100,000.00 |
Government Legal Department | 3,347.50 |
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP | 10,628.18 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 26,880.00 |
Historic England | 4,935.47 |
HM Courts & Tribunals Service | 113,850.00 |
HMRC (VAT payments) | 9,200.00 |
Hogan Lovells International LLP | 99,725.00 |
Home Office (Citi Trf) | 50,000.00 |
ICF CONSULTING SERVICES | 11,268.00 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 24,000.00 |
Ion Industries Ltd | 900.00 |
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd | 94,898.53 |
Joanna van der Lande | 273.10 |
KPMG LLP | 198,000.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 65,233.35 |
Martin Beisly Fine Art Ltd | 791.44 |
Mass Inspire Limited | 5,180.49 |
Matassa Toffolo Ltd | - 926.50 |
MHR International UK Ltd | 2,595.04 |
Ministry of Defence | 1,153.12 |
Miss Laura Smith | 50.00 |
MKF Holdings Ltd t/a China Policy | 62,750.00 |
Moorhouse Consulting Ltd | 25,000.00 |
Morton & Eden Ltd | 50.00 |
Mott MacDonald Ltd | - 0.50 |
Mr George Peretz | 720.00 |
My CSP LTD | 12,464.40 |
Ovum t/a Informa Telecoms & Media Ltd | 21,060.00 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 135,600.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 680,143.56 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 119,232.00 |
QinetiQ Limited | - 16,632.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 19,200.00 |
Rochelais Limited T/a True & North | 1,080.00 |
Ryan Turner | 5,262.50 |
SALESFORCE COM EMEA LTD | 2,311.51 |
Sally Osman | 10,000.00 |
Savills | 187,698.00 |
Social Innovation Camp Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Sotheby's | 150.00 |
Stance | 5,184.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 27,648.00 |
Sundry Supplier - Non Staff Expenses | 832.73 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 2,370.63 |
Thomas Upchurch | 4,999.00 |
University of Cambridge | 4,500.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 5,000.00 |
Venia Consulting Limited | - 1,281.60 |
Who Targets Me Ltd | 1,500.00 |
Xansium Consulting Ltd | 5,998.80 |
| 164,624.96 |
Grand Total | 3,863,931.58 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The total amount that DCMS spent on litigation services provided by the Government Legal Department and any external law firms and Counsel representing the department was:
(a) £198,557.00 (inc VAT) in 2020
(b) £226,283.10 (inc VAT) in 2021
(c) £197,729.56 (inc VAT) in 2022 (as at 30 June 2022)
These figures do not include the cost of Government Legal Department advice in relation to employment matters or the cost of advice by external firms or Counsel in relation to matters which did not result in litigation.
DCMS has one associated agency, Building Digital UK (BDUK). BDUK has not been involved in any litigation since it was established as an executive agency on 1 April 2022 - before that time any costs would have been included in the figures set out above. The organisation does seek legal advice on various matters including to support internal appeals on subsidy control, commercial matters, and compliance cases during the regular course of business.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Warman
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. As Contracts Finder was implemented from 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.
The Department’s commercial pipeline is also publicly available on the GOV.UK.
The management of contracts held by the Department is devolved to individual Business Units and undertaken by identified Contract Managers within policy or operational teams, with the responsibility for monitoring contract performance resting with the Senior Responsible Officer. The contract management role is typically undertaken by policy or operational staff as part of their existing roles and therefore costs are not distinguishable. Specialist commercial oversight, training and support is provided by the DCMS Commercial function where necessary and as applicable, depending on the level of risk, complexity and value.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Matt Warman
Since 1 January 2020, the Department has not held any contracts with Serco, G4S or Capita. To note, the Department publishes details of all contracts, with a value over £10,000, on Contracts Finder.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in her Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The DCMS Annual Report for 2020-2021 provides information on the highest and lowest remuneration for staff for the years 19/20 and 20/21:
Remuneration ranged from £22,375 to £185,000 (2019-20: £21,117 to £195,000).
| 2021-2022 | 2020-2021 | 2019-2020 |
Highest remuneration of any DCMS employee | Not yet published | £195,000 | £185,000 |
Lowest remuneration of any DCMS employee | £22,375 | £21,117 | |
Ratio | 8.72 | 8.76 |
This calculation is based on total remuneration, and therefore takes into account salary, allowances, non-consolidated performance related pay and benefits in kind. It does not include severance payments, employer pension contributions and the cash equivalent transfer value of pensions.
Information for 2021-22 is not yet available and will be published in the 21-22 DCMS Annual Report and Accounts (publication aimed for October 2022).
The figures provided are subject to audit.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The Department spent the following amounts on hospitality between 2019-2022:
2019-20 - £18,040
2020-21 - £124
2021-22 - £102,073
*2021-22 figures are unaudited.
The expenditure for 2021-22 includes £92,000 in relation to the Future Tech Forum, a two day event in November 2021 where the Secretary of State for DCMS hosted leading figures from around the world, including Ministers.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people and (b) households that are considered digitally excluded (i) in the UK and (ii) in each region of the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
According to the latest Lloyds Bank 2021 Consumer Index, over 9 million people in the UK are lacking in foundation digital skills and 5% (2.6 million) of the population have not been online in the last 3 months.
There has been a substantial decrease amongst the amount of households that do not have internet access. Between 2020 and 2021, the percentage of households without internet access has decreased from 7% to 4% in the UK.
The Lloyds Bank Consumer Index estimates that 13% of people in Wales, 8% of people in the North East and 8% of people in the South West have not been online in the past 3 months. These are the areas with the highest proportion of people offline. The East Midlands is estimated to have 6% of people offline, the North West, South East, and Yorkshire and the Humber have an estimated 4% offline. Both the West Midlands and London have 3% of their population offline.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average internet (a) download and upload speed and (b) monthly cost for households in each region of the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Matt Warman
Superfast broadband coverage is now available to over 97% of the UK, and Think Broadband reports that gigabit-capable networks now serve more than two in five (40%) premises in the UK.
Earlier this month, Ofcom published its UK Home Broadband Performance research which showed that the average download speed in the UK was 80.2 Mbps. This is an increase of 25% from 2019. The same report highlighted upload speeds of 21.6 Mbps which is equal to a 54% increase over the same period. Upload and download speeds will vary based on the type of connectivity installed within a property and the consumer’s individual retail package.
Ofcom published as part of its Connected Nations report in June 2020 the average speeds for each Nation. This showed the average download speeds as:
England: 74 Mbps
Wales: 58 Mbps
Scotland: 70Mbps
Northern Ireland: 64 Mbps
Regional data is produced on a quarterly basis by the website ThinkBroadband, and can be accessed at the following address: https://labs2.thinkbroadband.com/local/browse. Average speeds have been increasing each quarter as more premises have access to gigabit-capable broadband networks.
Different packages offered by suppliers may offer greater speeds, data allowances or other benefits, so it is difficult to assess the average cost. For example a number of broadband packages may include Pay TV subscriptions and other additional add-ons. However, to ensure decent broadband is affordable to everyone, a number of operators have brought in new nationwide affordable tariffs starting at £15 per month. For example, BT and Hyperoptic provide fibre social tariff products for households in receipt of Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits offering download speeds ranging from 40Mbps, up to 150Mbps.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if spectators will be permitted to attend non-elite sport from 17 May 2021.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
As set out in the roadmap announced by the Prime Minister on Monday 22 February, spectators at some large events will return subject to capacity caps from step 3 (expected to take place no earlier than 17 May). Government is working to produce both overarching guidance for all outdoor events and guidance for different spectator environments such as non-elite sports which will be available as we progress along the roadmap.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish all meeting minutes from all meetings between his Department and the National League, in relation to funding support for National League football clubs.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
I am content to share copies of all my written correspondence with the National League with the Hon Member’s office which detail my discussions with them on this issue.
On 19 November 2020 I gave a statement to the House on the principles of the Sports Winter Survival Package, which was open to National League clubs.