Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent in total on external management consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
The Department spent on external management consultants is as follows:
(a) In 2019 spend was not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally.
(b) In 2020 it was £906,170
(c) In 2021 it was £1,393,697
BEIS external management consultants’ expenditure is published on gov.uk here, under the expense type ‘Corporate Management Consultancy’.