§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list all of the reports his Department has commissioned from external consultants in each of the last three years; for each of the last 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. FormanI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) on 15 July,Official Report, column 727. The majority of consultancies listed for the years 1989, 1990 and 1991 in my earlier reply led to reports, some of which were for internal use; some of which were published. The following consultancies—asterisked—were either renewed or led to further work being commissioned:
Consultancy Commissioned 1990 *90/7. Peter Pierce-Price Quality assurance of ECCTIS 2000 Contract renewed on 31 March 91 and 31 March 92 *90/24. SSADM (SCOLL) Productivity Improvement Programme 90/25. Lalcrest Productivity Improvement Programme 91/13. LBMS Ltd Development of Productivity Improvement Initiative *90/31. BIS Project review of Enhanced Technical Data Service (ETDS) 90/32. ORACLE Evaluation of software for ETDS 90/33. Henley Feasibility of ETDS 91/49. BBT ETDS data conversion 91/79. Coopers Lybrand Deloitte ETDS and DCPS business case 91/80. Insight ETDS CRAMM review *90/36. Kinesis Facilitator in implementation of IT Records Management System 90/37. Coopers Lybrand Deloitte Management of change for IT Records Management System *90/38. Amtec Feasibility Study for Policy Branch Information System 91/71 EIS Policy Branch Information System *90/46. BIS Full Study for replacement of Data Collection Processing System (DCPS) 90/47 ORACLE Benchmark of hardware for DCPS 91/82 Sema DCPS 1991 *91/1. Robson Rhodes Selection and implementation of Financial Management System for Teacher's Pensions Agency Robson Rhodes Operation of FMS system 91/28. Michael Gill Quality assurance of PROSPECT Contract renewed on 31 March 92 91/76. ORACLE HMI management system 77/91. Dataflex HMI management system