HC Deb 05 December 1994 vol 251 c110W
Mr. Jamieson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the names of the consultants, with the amounts they received, who were paid in connection with preparing documents for the privatisation of the royal dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth.

Mr. Freeman

Since October 1993, a number of consultants have provided my Department with advice on the proposed privatisation of Devonport dockyard and Rosyth dockyard, as shown in the table:

Firm Subject
Coopers and Lybrand Financial and business
Allott and Lomax1 Civil engineering
AEA Technology Consultancy

Services (SRD)1

Nuclear Safety
Simmons and Simmons Legal advice relating chiefly to

Devonport

Brodies WS Legal advice relating chiefly to

Rosyth

Fuller Peiser Property valuation
Kleinwort Benson Commercial
Rust Environmental Environmental survey at

Devonport

Kenchington Ford Environmental survey at Rosyth
1 These firms were engaged under subcontract to Coopers and Lybrand.

Details of payments made to individual firms are commercially confidential.