Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 65675, how much of that procurement spending, either by former constituent Departments or by his Department since its formation, in each of those years, related to the services of management consultants.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and its predecessors publish details of consultancy spend within their Annual Report and Accounts, (this included Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) spend attributed to higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and skills which have transferred to Department for Education and trade policy and export control, as well as the functions previously performed by UK Trade and Investment which have transferred to the new Department for International Trade): summary below:
| Financial Year | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | ||
| £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | £'000 | |||
| Core DECC | 9,163 | 6,690 | 5,162 | 6,378 | 5,485 | 4,311 | ||
| Core BIS | 7,041 | 11,600 | 8,800 | 4,300 | 6,100 | 4,100 | ||
| Total | 16,204 | 18,290 | 13,962 | 10,678 | 11,585 | 8,411 | ||
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