Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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 2015.

The overall amount spent on external consultancy by the Cabinet Office is published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts available on page 52 on the below link. The Crown Commercial Service executive agency hold this information in their own accounts, which are available online.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016

Accounts for 2016-17 will be published in due course.