Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does hold information on consultancy spending and reports this in the Annual Report and Accounts.

You can refer to the links and pages below for the available published information that relates to consultancy spending.

Pages 99-101 of the 2020-21 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 88-89 of the 2019-20 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts

Home Office annual report and accounts 2019 - 2020 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 79-80 of the 2018-19 Home Office Annual Report

Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 71-72 of the 2017-18 Home Office Annual Report

Home Office Annual Report - 2017-18 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Pages 59-61 (pages 61-63 on the PDF reader) of the 2016-17 Home Office Annual Report

ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Information relating to financial year 2021-22 will be available once the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts have been laid before Parliament. This is expected to be prior to the summer recess.