Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on external consultants in each of the last five years.
The Department maintains a central record of overall Consultancy expenditure which is disclosed as part of the Annual Report and Accounts (ARAC) and for ease of reference the values reported for all Consultancy since 2016 are as follows:
FY2020-21 £109.668 million [ARAC 20/21 page 171]
FY2019-20 £98.080 million [ARAC 20/21 page 171]
FY2018-19 £116.914 million [ARAC 19/20 page 126]
FY2017-18 £49.955 million [ARAC 18/19 page 147]
FY2016-17 £60.500 million [ARAC 16/17 page 113]