HC Deb 03 November 1992 vol 213 cc176-7W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all of the reports the Overseas Development Administration has commissioned from external consultants in each of the past three years; for each of the past three years, how many reports from external consultants to his Department led to further consultancy work being commissioned, stating for each of these who were the original and subsequent consultants and briefly describing the subject matter of the consultancy work; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Detailed in the table are those reports commissioned from external consultants by the Overseas Development Administration in connection with its core administrative responsibilities, for each of the past three years. It does not include details of consultants employed under the overseas aid programme. Consultancies are awarded, after competition, to the consultant considered best able to provide value for money in terms of quality of work and price. None of the reports listed led directly to the commissioning of further consultancy work.

Year Report commissioned Consultant
1990 Review of personnel management A. Fowler
1991 Review of Aid Management Overseas in Africa Sir Terence Streeton
1991 Review of Aid Management Overseas in South East Asia A. Sutherland
1991 Level of Procurement Business R. Walsgrove
1992 Review of Africa Division R. Walsgrove
1992 Market Testing and contracting out Coopers & Lybrand