Department for Transport: Consultants

(asked on 29th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

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


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 6th July 2022

The following table provides the total published spend on consultants for the core Department and its executive agencies, covering financial years 2016-17 to 2020-21:

Financial Year

Expenditure (£m)

2016-17

50.1

2017-18

52.5

2018-19

  1. 1

2019-20

77.5

2020-21

89.1

We are in the process of producing the Department’s Annual Report which will be published in July, this will include our audited consultancy spend for 2021-22.

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