Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to section 13 on MOD expenditure on consultancy in his Department’s statistical report, MOD departmental resources 2020, published on 10 December 2020, if he will publish the (a) names of consultants and (b) consultancies contacted under the technical category; and what services were procured under that heading.

The top five consultancies were: Babcock Aerospace, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, QinetiQ, Jacobs U.K and Ernst & Young LLP, this was for consulting on a variety of technical subjects predominantly in IT, engineering and safety related topics.