§ Mr. Tim Smithasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the contracts, with the subject of the assignment, awarded to management consultancy or accounting firms by his Department in 1986, with the name of the consultants concerned.
§ Mr. ScottThe information is as follows:
Firm and Subject of Assignment
Arthur Andersen and Co.
- Financial appraisal for the Industrial Development Board (IDB).
Beecom Management Consultants Ltd.
- Finance for Managers course.
Binder Hamlyn
- Business appraisal for Urban Development Grant.
Business and Management Consultants
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
CM Consultants
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
Centerhouse Management
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
Coopers and Lybrand
- Professional services for Warne Surgical Products.
- Provide accountancy advice in monitoring the affairs of the public transport companies.
- Review the format and content of the annual accounts prepared for Castlenavan Quarry.
- Survey of public attitudes to healthy lifestyles for the Department of Health and Social Services.
- Market research on Blood Transfusion Services.
- To establish a methodology for evaluating training assistance.
- Study of retail provision in the Belfast urban area. Financial appraisals for IDB (6 studies).
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
David Rigby Associates
- Linen task force update.
D. C. Ives
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
D. E. Barnard Systems
- Review of Central Print Unit and Forms Design Bureau in the Northern Ireland Civil Service.
Deloitte Haskins and Sells
- To review the information and management needs of the Department of the Environment (NI) Works Service.
- Financial appraisals for IDB (5 studies).
Ernst and Whinney
- Review of Internal Audit in the NI Civil Service.
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
Fintrac Consulting Ltd.
724W
- Examine supply and use of timber in Northern Ireland.
Froggatt and Company
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
Goldblatt Management Consultants
- Carpet sector review.
- Financial appraisals for IDB (5 studies).
Gryphon Group Consultancy
- Market appraisal for IDB.
Hanna Thompson and Co.
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
Hill, Kennedy and Co.
- Business appraisal for Urban Development Grant.
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
IMS London International
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
Industrial Training Services
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
- To assist companies making application for the Training on Employers' Premises Scheme to develop training programmes.
- Provide specialist advice and input to Ida's Executive Development Programmed.
IOTA Ltd.
- Business appraisals for Urban Development Grant (5 studies).
ISCOL Ltd.
- Provision of training in Management and Manpower Review Division of the Department of Finance and Personnel.
J. B. Kennedy and Co.
- Business appraisal for Urban Development Grant.
Jackson Andrews and Co.
- Financial appraisal for IDB.
Kenneth G. Burnett and Partners
- Sales Development training programme.
Langham Management Consultants
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
Linn Medical
- Employed to advise Warne Surgical Products on a particular product.
M & A Management Services
- Business appraisals for Urban Development Grant (4 studies).
Management Development Services
- To provide business training and advice to participants in the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
McFarland Edmund
- International investment—market research.
Mclvor Jenkins Associates
- Marketing appraisal for IDB.
Newchurch Ltd.
- Advise on arrangements for small firms and encouraging enterprise.
PA Management Consultants
725W
- To assess the implications of introducing the Home Office `Fresh Start' proposals for the prison service in England and Wales into the Northern Ireland prison service.
- Financial Management Initiative project in DED.
- Top structure review in the IDB.
- Marketing appraisal for the IDB.
- Financial appraisal for the IDB.
Pactal
- To assess the use of the system of communicating word processors in the Belfast and London offices of the Northern Ireland Office.
Peat Marwick Mitchell and Co.
- Financial appraisal for the IDB.
- Commercial potential for an irradiation facility in Northern Ireland.
Price Waterhouse
- Financial appraisals for the IDB (4 studies).
- Toolmaking requirements for a tooling facility for 3 months up to 6 months 85 50 injection moulding.
- Assistance with vetting of contractors accounts regarding appointment to select list.
Purchasing Index (UK) Ltd.
- Overview of procurement and supply functions in Northern Ireland Government Departments.
Quinn Associates
- Financial appraisal for the 1DB.
Professor N. S. Tutt and Miss M. P. Brown
- Review of Economics and Social Divisions of the Policy Planning and Research Unit of the Department of Finance and Personnel.
Touche Rose
- Development of computer audit capability in DHSS.
- To advise on specified matters relating to Short Brothers plc and Harland and Wolff plc.
- A review of the Standard Capital Grant Scheme.
Warner International
- Marketing appraisal for the IDB.
- Financial appraisal for the IDB.
William Fitch and Co.
- Financial appraisal for the IDB.