Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the nature of the recent work was for his Department for which PA Consulting received £220,000.

The Cabinet Office recently published a set of transparency data on gov.uk which details expenditure totalling approximately £1.6m for the expense area of ‘Central EU Exit Consultancy’.

Established in April 2018, 'Central EU Exit Consultancy’ refers to a set of contracts that enables government departments to secure resource quickly for critical work on the preparations and implementation of EU exit.

The work by PA Consulting was under this Central EU Exit Consultancy arrangement the nature of which was to support two Departments: (1) DExEU Business Readiness Communications Team and (2) Border Force Operational Readiness Portfolio Management Office.