Ministry of Defence: Consultants

(asked on 11th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 18th July 2022

The Department maintains a central record of overall consultancy expenditure which is disclosed as part of the Annual Report and Accounts (ARAc). For ease of reference, the values reported for all Consultancy spend in 2020 and 2021 is shown below:

Financial Year 2020-21 £109.668 million

Financial Year 2019-20 £98.080 million

Please be aware that the UK Public Sector fiscal year runs April-March and as such, analysis is captured by financial not calendar year.

The total consultancy spend during Financial Year 2021-2022 will be reported within the MOD's 2021-22 Annual Report and Accounts which is due to be published imminently. This will be available at the link below;

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-annual-reports

The following table lists the Top 10 Companies by Value of Consultancy Services provided to the MOD in 2019-20 and 2020-21:

2019-20 - TOP 10 BY CONSULTANCY VALUE

2020-21 - TOP 10 BY CONSULTANCY VALUE

1

KPMG LLP

1

KPMG LLP

2

DELOITTE LLP

2

PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

3

PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

3

DELOITTE LLP

4

CGI IT UK LIMITED

4

QINETIQ LIMITED

5

DENTONS UKMEA LLP

5

DENTONS UKMEA LLP

6

QINETIQ LIMITED

6

MCKINSEY & COMPANY INC  UNITED KINGDOM

7

MASS CONSULTANTS LIMITED

7

MASS CONSULTANTS LIMITED

8

FRAZER-NASH CONSULTANCY LIMITED

8

BURGES SALMON LLP

9

IMPROBABLE WORLDS LTD

9

JONES LANG LASALLE LIMITED

10

ERNST & YOUNG LLP

10

ARCADIS LLP

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