Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Management Consultants

(asked on 27th March 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 30th March 2017

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

Sources:

DECC Annual-reports-and-accounts

BIS Annual-reports-and-accounts

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