HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Consultants

(asked on 20th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service plans to spend on consultancies in total; and how much and on which consultancies that service plans to spend (a) more and (b) less than £50,000 in the 2018-19 financial year.


Answered by
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Lucy Frazer
This question was answered on 11th March 2019

The following table shows the amounts of expenditure on consultants planned by HMCTS for the 18/19 financial year.

Supplier

FY Forecast

Notes

PWC - Delivery Partner

18,041,125

Strategic advice on Reform Programme

Methods Business & Digital Technology LTD

2,118,619

Judicial engagement project to raise awareness of HMCTS reform

Revolving Doors

72,000

Improve digital services in HMCTS service centres

PORISM LTD

2,385

Documenting workshops for three service project

Pinsett Mansons

14,233

Legal advice re Authorised Enforcement Agency project

Cabinet Office

23,628

Consultancy services on Transforming Compliance and Enforcement Programmes

Veracity

56,574

Refinancial Services

Beamans Ltd

4,296

Profile Evaluations

Beamans Ltd

28,050

Job families framework

Beamans Ltd

20,000

Profile Evaluations (JECS or JEPS)

Beamans Ltd

32,346

Profile Evaluations (JECS or JEPS)

Cabinet Office

1,050

Work on MoJ participation in National Fraud Initiative

PA Consultancy Services LTD

1,402

Facilitation Services for staff away day

Deloitte

87,500

Financial services forecast for remainder 18/19

Total

20,503,208

The majority of spend relates to the PWC Delivery Partner contract, which provides strategic advice and support across HMCTS Reform Note that the figure cited above includes VAT. It should be noted that the PWC contract is a strategic partnership contract that replaced several individual contracts, and as such gives us access to specialist skills across the change spectrum.

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