HC Deb 10 March 2003 vol 401 cc9-11W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the matters upon which her Department and the public bodies sponsored by her Department have obtained recent advice from Deloitte & Touche. [100523]

Ms Hewitt

Deloitte & Touche have provided advice to the Department and its NDPBs on the following issues:

  • Tax advice to various NDPBs
  • Audit work for various NDPBs
  • Risk management
  • Management information system
  • Electronic submission framework
  • Administration strategy
  • Wind up of the Pension scheme of Inward
  • Access to Finance—SMEs
  • Data Protection Act review and Performance Management Framework
  • Work-Life Balance Challenge Fund
  • Royal Mail including the Post Office network
  • National Debtline pilot evaluation
  • BNFL PPP Advisors
  • Financial Systems development
  • Inward Investment Overseas and in UK

The Department's Executive Agencies will be responding directly.

Letter from Roger Heathcote to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: You tabled a question on 27 February 2003 to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, asking if she will list the matters upon which her Department and the public bodies sponsored by her Department have obtained recent advice from Deloitte & Touche. I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Employment Tribunals Service(ETS) which is an executive agency of the DTI. The Employment Tribunals Service have obtained no advice from Deloitte & Touche in the calendar year 2002.

Letter from Alison Brimelow to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: I am replying to your Parliamentary Question, tabled on 27 February 2003, about matters upon which the Department of Trade and Industry has received recent advice from Deloitte & Touche. The Patent Office has received no advice from Deloitte & Touche.

Letter from Dr. J. W. Llewellyn to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: The Secretary for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply on behalf of the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) to your question if she will list the matters upon which her Department and the public bodies sponsored by her Department have obtained recent advice from Deloitte & Touche. National Weights and Measures Laboratory have not obtained recent advice from Deloitte & Touche.

Letter from Claire Clancy to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: I am responding to your recent Parliamentary Question on behalf of Companies House, which is an Executive Agency of DTI. I can confirm that Companies House has received no recent advice from Deloitte & Touche.

Letter from Martin Wyn Griffith to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: You asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the matters upon which her Department and the public bodies sponsored by her Department have obtained recent advice from Deloitte & Touche. I am writing to confirm that the Small Business Service has not called upon the services of Deloitte & Touche in the last calendar year.

Letter from Mike Goddard to Mr. Austin Mitchell, dated 10 March 2003: I have been asked to reply in respect of the Radiocommunications Agency to your recent Parliamentary Question about advice from Deloitte & Touche. This Agency has no recent contracts with Deloitte & Touche.