Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 5 April 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on consultancy since May 2010.
DWP has spent £30.5 million on consultancy since May 2010 until December 2010.
Of this figure, £13.5 million was management consultancy and £17million was IT consultancy.
Of the £13.5 million management consultancy figure, £80,000 was entered into after May 2010.
We are unable to break down the IT consultancy figure as this information is not held centrally and could only be gathered at a cost.
Consultancy spend for the period May 2009 to December 2009 was £42.7 million. Spend has, therefore, reduced by 29%.
In common with all Government Departments, DWP is subject to a freeze on consultancy engagements. All requests for consultancy procurement are challenged to ensure that the work is essential and cannot be performed by existing staff and all requests for new contracts (and extensions to existing contracts) over £20,000 have to be approved at ministerial level.
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