Heritage Lottery Fund: Consultants

Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 26 March 2012.

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Photo of Jake Berry Jake Berry Conservative, Rossendale and Darwen

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how much the Heritage Lottery Fund has spent on public affairs consultancy firms in the last three years; on which firms; and for what reasons.

Photo of Ed Vaizey Ed Vaizey The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is a distributor of lottery funding and does not receive Government funding. They have supplied the information in the following table of payments (inclusive of VAT) spent on public affairs consultancy firms in the last three year, and to which firms:

  Contractors £
2009-10 Strategem (Northern Ireland) (1)101,201.89
  Positif Politics (Wales) (1)
  Greenhaus (Scotland) (1)
  Blue Rubicon (UK) (1)
  Morgan Allen (Wales) (1)
     
2010-11 Strategem (Northern Ireland) (1)48,791.19
  Positif Politics (Wales) (1)
  Greenhaus (Scotland) (1)
  Randalls (UK—monitoring only) (1)
     
2011-12 Strategem (Northern Ireland) (1)31,807.52
  Positif Politics (Wales) (1)
  Greenhaus (Scotland) (1)
  Randalls (UK—monitoring only) (1)
(1 )Indicates brace

These contractors provide advice and logistical support in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including guidance on how devolved Administrations operate. They also provide parliamentary monitoring services and reporting on the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and Greater London Assembly.

In January 2010 HLF decided to bring much of the parliamentary monitoring work in-house to achieve savings.

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