§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Attorney-General (1) if he will list any research reports or policy analyses received from outside management consultants after January 1985, but commissioned by his Department before that date, and the date of completion and cost of each contract;
(2) if he will list the contracts his Department has given to outside management consultants in policy areas concerning his Department since January 1985, and the date of completion and cost of each contract.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe legal secretariat to the Law Officers, the Treasury Solicitor's Department and the Serious Fraud Office have not received such research reports or policy analyses and have not given contracts to outside management consultants in policy areas. The Crown prosecution service has given the following contracts to outside consultants, largely in management areas, since the service was created in 1986
Strategic planning and budgeting study by Hay Management Consultants, completed April 1987, cost £37,000;Telecommunications strategy study by Logica, completed January 1987, cost £20,000;Internal communication study by Charles Barker Communications, completed December 1987, cost £29,000;Information study, asistance from the Mindworks Partnership, completed March 1989, cost £40,000;Staffing model feasibility study by P. A. Management Consultants, completed December 1988, cost £37,000;Staffing model development by P. A. Management Consultants, completed January 1990, cost £135,000;Evaluation of the use of information technology to present evidence in court by the human science and advanced technology research centre, Loughborough university, for completion February 1990, cost £15,000.