Treasury: Consultants
(asked on 10th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent in total on external management consultants in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21, and (d) 2021-22; and what ten projects or work areas in each of those financial years required the greatest expenditure on support from those consultants.
HM Treasury’s spend on consultancy is published and available for viewing within the Annual Report and Accounts. HM treasury is yet to lay its accounts for (d)2021-22 but this will be published and available prior to the summer recess. We have included the links to the published Annual Report and Accounts for each of the available years in question within the table below.
| Financial Year | Publication Link | Page Reference |
(a) | 2018-19 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019 | Page 88 |
(b) | 2019-20 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020 | Page 104 |
(c) | 2020-21 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021 | Page 101 |
The top ten projects which were the main drivers for the spend totals included in the published annual reports and accounts are published and available on the GOV.UK contract finder service portal for which we have included a link to below.
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search