Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2023 to Question 158848 on Home Office: Consultants, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of spending on consultants in the previous five years.

Home Office publishes its Annual Reports and Accounts which are available on gov.uk at HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Pg 107 of the 21/22 report sets out how we assure consultancy spend:

Home_Office_ARA_21-22_Final_-_Gov.uk.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk).