§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the projects(a) undertaken in the year to April 1990 and (b) proposed but not yet operational by management consultants giving, in each case, its title, author, completion date and whether the document is available.
§ Miss WiddecombeDetails of the projects in the year 1989–90 and proposed but not yet operational projects are shown in the table. As stated in my reply to the hon. Member's earlier question on 21 February 1991 at col269, consultancy reports are usually internal working documents and are not publicly available. The exception in the 1989–90 project list is the Arthur Young assignment which contributed to the efficiency scrutiny on fraud. As this was considered to be of wider interest, a copy of the scrutiny report was placed in the Library.
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Consultancy firm Subject of the Assignment Assignment completed PA Consulting Group Reward Arrangements for the Benefit Agency May 1990 Peat Marwick McLintock Centralised Receipts Collection System February 1990 Peat Marwick McLintock Efficiency Scrutiny of Management of the Departmental Debt—Consultancy Support December 1989 P-E Inbucon Survey of Local Authorities (Preparations for Community Charge Benefit) February 1990 Price Waterhouse Administrative Resource Management System Continuing Price Waterhouse Integrated Complementing System March 1990 Price Waterhouse Future Career Development for Staff within ITSD/ITSA March 1990 Price Waterhouse Forecasting Social Security Expenditure August 1989 Price Waterhouse Financial Planning and Control May 1989 Price Waterhouse Performance Measurements for ITSA and CU February 1990 Professor Geoffrey Woodroofe DPSD Purchasing Consultancy (Post Office Counters Fee) January 1990 Purchasing and Supply Consultants DPSD Ad Hoc Purchasing Consultancies April 1990 Sema Group Consultancy Support for Integrated Complementing System Project November 1989 Simmons Relocation Services Advice on Relocation Package July 1989 The McNeil Robertson Partnership Departmental Personnel Management (DPM) Survey June 1989 Touche Ross Administrative Resource Management System (Phase 1) September 1989 Touche Ross Integrated Complementing System May 1990 Touche Ross Finance Information Strategy January 1990 Touche Ross Benefit Agency Implementing Work (MIS and Finance) November 1990 Touche Ross Monitoring the Camberwell Replacement Scheme October 1990 Touche Ross Patterns of Business Study February 1990 Touche Ross Administrative Resource Management System (Phase 2) October 1990 Projects Proposed
Monitoring the Management of Change
Team Building and Communications for the Benefit Agency Management Team
Project Management Software Selection
Yield Measurement on Liable Relative Cases