Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
Answered by Conor Burns
Spend on consultancy services for the Northern Ireland Office in each of the last five years is shown below.
2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 |
£901,663 | £1,017,816 | £ 1,544,240 | £1,432,132 | £858,431 |
Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK.