§ Mr. JamiesonTo 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. FreemanSince 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.