Ministry of Justice: Consultants
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on external consultants by (a) HM Courts and Tribunals Service and (b) HM Prison and Probation Service in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022; and whether any of that spending related to the preparation of funding bids to (A) his Department and (B) HM Treasury.
The spend on consultants for the period is listed on the table below.
External Management Consultants Spend by Financial Spend, £000’s
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service | 2,942 | 5,046 | 4,935 |
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service | 5,782 | 478 | 151 |
At this point, we could not identify any spending related to the preparation of funding bids and to look on each individual contract would have disproportionate costs to disaggregate the spend.
The service provided under that spend had a broad range of outcomes, including among others: probation reform, the prison estate transformation program, prison reform and reducing reoffending.