Management Consultants

HC Deb 15 March 1989 vol 149 cc254-5W

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the total fees paid out by his Department to management consultants in 1979–80 and each year to date; and what is the estimate for the current year.

Mr. Cope

[holding answer 13 March 1989]: Expenditure in the Department of Employment group, including the Training Agency and the employment service, in each year from 1984–85 to 1987–88 on management consultancy was as follows:

	£ thousands
1984–85	365
1985–86	365
1986–87	1,032
1987–88	653

The estimate outturn for the current year (1988–89) is around £950,000.

Information for the period from 1979–80 to 1983–84 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.