Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted, (c) specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
DVSA’s Annual Report and Accounts available at gov.uk set out the amount spent on consultancy.