Keith Vaz
Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to the public purse was of external consultants employed by her Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.
James Brokenshire
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security and Immigration)
Consultancy expenditure incurred by the Home Department and its agencies is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are held in the House Library. The figures from each year's report are shown in the following table.
| £000 | |||||
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 (to Period 3) | |
| Home Office HQ | 37,107 | 27,222 | 12,224 | 16,277 | — |
| UK Border Agency | 15,630 | 3,023 | 1,128 | 907 | —- |
| Identity and Passport Service1 | 8,044 | 1,871 | 1,209 | — | — |
| Criminal Records Bureau | 52 | 195 | — | — | — |
| National Fraud Authority | — | — | 22 | — | — |
| Home Office and Agencies | — | — | — | — | 2,733 |
| Total: | 60,833 | 32,311 | 14,583 | 17,184 | 2,733 |
| 1 Renamed as HM Passport Office. | |||||
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