Ministry of Defence: Consultants and Temporary Employment

(asked on 11th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the projected cost of (a) consultancy services and (b) temporary staff for (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its other arm's-length bodies for financial year 2023-24.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 14th December 2023

The following table provides a summary of the overall expenditure forecast by the Department for financial year 2023-24 for consultancy services and temporary staff (sometimes also referred to as contingent labour):

Financial Year

Consultancy Services

Temporary Staff

2023-24

£94.588 million

£321.793 million

Note: The above summary includes the Department and the following Executive Agencies;

- Defence Equipment and Support

- Submarine Delivery Agency

- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

There is 1 Executive agency for which data is not available;

- UK Hydrographic Office

Other ALB data is included within the above dataset but is not available separately. ALB’s consist of a small proportion of the above figures (less than 5%).

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