§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each of the last five years the cost to public funds of consultancy work provided by(a) KPMG Peat Marwick, (b) Touche Ross, (c) Price Waterhouse, (d) Ernst and Young, (e) CSL, (f) Prime, (g) Basis, (h) Theodore Goddard, (i) Dibb Lupton Broomhead, (j) Capita and (k) Shreeveport to his Department; and if he will list any other firms which have provided consultancy work and the costs to public funds for each of the last five years.
§ Sir John WheelerDetails of payments to individual consultancy firms have not been disclosed as this would breach commercial confidentiality. A list of the consultancy firms employed each year has been placed in the library.
Expenditure on consultants by Northern Ireland Departments for each of the last five financial years is as follows:
£ 1989–90 12,901,349 1990–91 7,674,423 1991–92 12,987,469 1992–93 8,717,868 1993–94 15,408,337