Home Department written question – answered at on 26 November 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many consultants were engaged by her Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013 to date; which companies were used; and what the cost was in each year.
The Home Department's commercial objectives require consultancy services to be commissioned in terms of defined output, not in terms of individuals assigned by the firms to deliver that output. Therefore, the Department does not employ individuals under contracts for consultancy services or keep records of how many individuals are working on each consultancy engagement. Carrying out an exercise to obtain these numbers would incur disproportionate cost.
The names of the consultancy companies that were used by the Home Department are listed as follows:
Consultancy supplier list: Consultancy companies used by the Home Office during 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14
Actica Consulting Ltd
Advantage Technical Resourcing
Ahmad El Terk
Alchemica
Alpinair
Altius Consulting Ltd
Always Thinking Associates
Amtec Consulting Group
Analysys Mason Ltd
Andriana Nadoo Consulting Services
Asb Action Ltd
Ashridge Consulting Ltd
Ask Europe plc
Aspire Recruitment Consultants Ltd
Assessment & Development Consultants Ltd (A&DC)
Atkins Management Consultants
Barco Control Rooms GMBH
Berkshire Consultancy Ltd
Birnberg Peirce & Partners
Bramble CC Ltd
Bristol Muslim Cultural Society
Broadcasting Support Services
Butler & Young
Capgemini UK plc
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Capital Quality Ltd
Cargyll Consultants
Centre for Accessible Environments (The)
Centre for International Forensic Assistance (CIFA)
CGMS Consulting
Channel 3 Consulting Ltd
Colliers CRE Clients Account
Collyer Rose
Concerto Partners LLP
Conscious Solutions
Cordis Bright Ltd
CT International Solutions Ltd
Cubiks Ltd
Dame Sue Street DCB Ltd
Dashwood Consulting Ltd
David Birch Consulting
DBI Consulting
Deloitte MCS Ltd
Detica Ltd
Digital Public Ltd
DMA Consultancy Ltd
Drivers Jonas Deloitte
Dulani Kulasinghe
Duncan Macquarrie Associates Ltd
Ecctis Ltd
EDSL Ltd
Emerging Technology Serv Ltd
Emergn Ltd
ENDC Accounting and Consultancy Ltd
Evolve Business Consultancy Ltd
Experis Ltd
Faithful & Gould
Fast Future Research Ltd
Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd
Gardiner & Theobald
GDA Ltd
Global Freight Services Ltd
GNS-Inspire Ltd
Gosling Consultancy Ltd
Harmer Consulting
Haverstock Associates
Hays IT
Info-Assure Ltd iO1 Ltd
Ionann Management Consultants
IRN Consultants Ltd
Isos Partnership
J L Consultancy
Jonathan Spencer Consultants Ltd
Jones Lang Lassalle
Judith Gardner Independent Consultants
Key Forensic Services Ltd
KIS Solutions Ltd
Knowledgeable Ltd
Lokahi Foundation
M & M Research Ltd
Mantech Solutions and Technologies
Mark Veljovic T/A CT International Solutions Ltd
Matrix Research and Consultancy Ltd
Metafore Partners LLP
Metaltech Consulting Services
Methods Consulting Ltd
MJMNI
Mott Macdonald
Mouchel Management Consulting Ltd
Navigation Consulting Ltd
Newsfury Ltd
Nichols Group Ltd
Novare Consulting Ltd
Olorin Consulting
PA Consulting Services Ltd
Paul Martin Associates
PCUBED
Pendragon Global Consulting Ltd (in administration)
Pentarch Consulting Ltd
Perpetuity Research & Consultancy International Ltd.
Peter Tickner Associates Ltd
PMMS Consulting Group Ltd
QI Consulting
Qinetiq Ltd
Quadrangle Group LLP
Quask AG Ltd
Reply Ltd
RJG Management Consulting Ltd
Robin Ryde Consulting
Roke Manor Research Ltd
RQ Consulting
Safety Net Associates Ltd
Sandhill Consultants Ltd
Sandy Brown Associates LLP
SAS Drivers Jonas (France)
Saville Consulting UK Ltd
Schellekens Consultancy (The)
Scott Blinder
Servoca Resourcing Solutions Ltd
Seven Questions Consulting Ltd
Shared Intelligence
SHD Consulting Ltd
Smart Consulting
Smartsourcing plc
Spring Technology
SQW Consulting
Stanton Marris
STI Consultancy Ltd
Stonecourt Consulting Ltd
Systems Consultants Services Ltd
Tam Support Services Ltd
Tangram Architects & Designers
Thompson Aviation
TMP (UK) Worldwide
Tonic Consultants Ltd
Tony Hurrell Consulting
Tracker Network UK
Trenton Consultants Ltd
Tribal Helm
UCL Consultants Ltd
Vega Consulting Services Ltd
Verdant Consulting Ltd
Walker-Cox Ltd
Warwick Business Consultancy Ltd
Winckworth Sherwood
WOR Consultancy Ltd
WT Partnership
X-Net
Ziona Strelitz Associates
Zircon Management Consulting Ltd.
The cost for consultancy for the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 to date is as follows:
Consultancy spend | ||||
£000 | ||||
Full year | ||||
Annual accounts | Annual accounts | Annual accounts | Year to date (AP7) | |
Year 2010-11 | Year 2011-12 | Year 2012-13 | Year 2013-14 | |
Consultancy | 64,194 | 33,301 | 14,762 | 6,632 |
The cost of consultancy continues to fall year-on-year since 2010-11.
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