Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Consultants

(asked on 7th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.


Answered by
Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 14th September 2015

Since 2010-11 the Department has commissioned the following policy evaluations from external organisations.

Title

Published

Organisation

Value

Meta-evaluation of the impacts and legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Yes

Grant Thornton

£1,400,000

The UK's National Broadband Scheme - an independent evaluation report

Yes

Oxera

£117,000

The Department does not hold information on evaluations commissioned by its arm’s length bodies centrally.

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