§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby of 13 December 1989,Official Report, column 651, concerning the accountancy firms 166W employed by his Department; if he will give (a) the names of the four firms, (b) a list of the payments made to each in 1988 and 1989 and (c) details of the consultancy contracts given to each firm.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe four firms and the overall amounts paid during the 1988 and 1989 calendar years are as follows:
1988 £ 1989 £ Coopers and Lybrand 205,674 336,073 Deloitte, Haskins and Sells Ernst and Whinney (now Ernst and Young)
Peat Marwick McLintock It is not possible to state the amount paid to each firm as this would break commercial confidentiality. The contracts awarded to each firm are listed below. The 1987 contracts are listed as some expenditure fell in 1988.
1987
- Coopers and Lybrand
- Study of education and training databases.
- Coopers and Lybrand
- Financial delegation to schools.
- Peat Marwick McLintock
- Resource Management.
1988
- Coopers and Lybrand
- Management framework for the control of information system projects.
- Deloitte, Haskins and Sells
- Financial management advice to the University Grants Committee.
- Ernst and Whinney
- Management system for HM Inspectors travel and subsistence.
- Peat Marwick McLintock
- Study of requirements for an integrated Vote and Management accounting system.
1989
- Coopers and Lybrand
- Review of MRC capital expenditure systems.
- Delloitte, Haskins and Sells
- Assistance with the implementation of the Department's accounting system and selection of the accounts payable system.
- Ernst and Young
- Specification and selection of a teachers superannuation payment system and reorganisation.
- Peat Marwick McLintock
- Financial management survey of SERC.
- Peat Marwick McLintock
- Study into student loans.
- Peat Marwick McLintock
- Assistance with the implementation of the accounting system.