Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of external consultants employed by her Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.

Consultancy expenditure incurred by the Home Department and its agencies is
published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, copies of
which are held in the House library. The figures from each year's report are
shown in the table below.