Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible spent on external consultants and advisers in each year since 2010.

Information relating to spend on external consultants and advisers for the Department, each of its non-departmental bodies and executive agencies for which the Department is responsible, is published information.

Please refer to the Annual Report and Accounts, Note 7, Expenditure on purchases of goods and services, Note 7, Other administration costs and Note 8, Other programme costs for further details. Links to each of the year's accounts within this request have been provided as follows:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-annual-report

www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010

In the accounts Core Treasury comprises the non-agency parts of HM Treasury.