HC Deb 20 June 1990 vol 174 cc571-2W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the studies conducted inside his Department by management consultants over the last 10 years, naming the consultancy, the cost, the subject and the outcome in each instance.

Mr. Waddington

Information on management consultancy awarded before 1985, and the outcome of studies conducted over the last 10 years is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The cost of individual management consultancy contracts is a matter of commercial confidentiality which it would not be proper to disclose. For details of studies carried out in 1985 I refer the hon. Member to the replies given by my right hon. Friend the then Home Secretary to my hon. Friend the Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates) on 14 July 1986 at column333 and for 1986 to 1989 to the replies given to my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith) on 18 February 1987 at column 643, 26 April 1988 at column 86, 4 April 1989 at column 30, and 3 April 1990 at column 557. The following studies have been commissioned in the current year:

Price Waterhouse

  • Financial Advice on the Privatisation of the IBA Transmission Network.

NERA

  • Advice on the economic regulation of the privatised IBA Transmission Network.

Norton Rose

  • Legal Advisers on the Privatisation of the IBA Transmission Network.

PA Consultants

  • Review of the Prison Service Management Information System Requirements.

Jones Lang Wooton

  • "City Search" for the proposed relocation of the Prison Service HQ.

Peat Marwick McLintock

  • Nottingham Crime Audit.

BBN Matching

  • Consultancy on Multi-ethnic name.

PPCR

  • Survey of Community Safety.

Talisman

  • Public Relations Consultancy (launch of Rochdale Safer Cities Project).

Reginald Watts

  • Consultancy Assistance to develop Marketing Plan.

Sudbury Consultants Ltd.

  • Study of Command, Leadership and Management.

Coopers Lybrand Deloitte

  • Study and Estimate of Costs of the setting up and running of a Magistrates Courts Agency.

Ernst and Young

  • Privatisation of the IBA Terrestrial Transmission System: Reporting Accountants.

Greaves and Co.

  • Accountancy Advice.

Vista Communications

  • Communication Audit for the Prison Service.

Touche Ross

  • Assistance with Passport Office Agency.

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