HC Deb 26 February 1993 vol 219 cc758-61W
Ms. Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the contracts awarded by his Department to(a) Coopers and Lybrand management consultants, (b) Touche Ross management consultants, (c) Price Waterhouse management consultants, (d) Ernst and Young management consultants, (e) Chrichton Roberts Ltd, (f) KPMG management consultants and (g) Leopold Joseph management consultants, with the total cost of the contracts with each contractor, for (i) the past 12 months and (ii) 1991–92.

Mr. Goodlad

The tables list the contract for consultancies awarded by the diplomatic and aid wings of the Department during 1991–92 and during 1992–93 up to 31 January 1993.

Coopers and Lybrand

(a) DIPLOMATIC WING

1991–92

Strategic Study—Value=£61,000

1992–93

  1. (i) Market Testing General
  2. (ii) Long Hours and Working Practices
  3. (iii) Market Testing Support on Information Systems

Total Value in 1992–93 £71,000.

(b) AID WING

1991–92

  • Former Soviet Union: St. Petersburg Free Enterprise Business Plan
  • Ghana: Integrated Personnel/Management Payroll Database Study
  • South Africa: Municipal Finance Consultant: World Bank Urban Sector Mission
  • Anguilla: Annual Audit
  • Guyana: Assistance to Divestment Programme
  • Czechoslovakia: Advisory Assistance to Prague and Bratislava Stock Exchanges: Phase II
  • Tanzania: Accounting Assistance
  • Tanzania: Industrial Sector Credit: Privatisation Workshop
  • Zambia: Accounts Team Phase II: Technical Assistance to the Bank of Zambia
  • Czechoslovakia: Assistance to the Prague and Bratislava Stock Exchanges
  • Poland: Study of Options for Tax Incentives
  • Zambia: Technical Assistance to the Bank of Zambia
  • Nepal: Civil Service Reform
  • Hungary: Electricity Pricing, Regulation and Industry Restructuring Consultancy
  • United Kingdom: Market Testing of ODA Headquarters
  • Total Value in 1991–92=£1.71 million.

1992–93

  • Ghana: Health Sector Preparatory Consultancy: Human Resource Development
  • Former Soviet Union: Property Privatisation Project: Supervisor: Russia
  • Hungary: Phase II: Support for the Hungarian Electricity Sector
  • Poland: Conduct of Council Business: Loan Government Assistance Project
  • Egypt: Project Review: Egyptian National Institute of Transport
  • Czechoslovakia: Advisory Assistance to Prague and Bratislava Stock Exchanges
  • United Kingdom: Review of Office Services: Market Testing
  • Kenya: Parastatal Reform: Preparation and Appraisal: Phases I, II and III
  • Bangladesh: Short Term Consultancy: Project Support
  • Bangladesh: Bangladesh Power Development Board Action Plan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands: Review of Revenue Study
  • United Kingdom: Privatisation Proposals.
  • Ethiopia: Structural Adjustment Reform Programme: Public Sector Retrenchment
  • Tanzania: Tanzania Railways: Information Technology Strategy Study
  • Tanzania: Tanzania Railways: Asset Revaluation Study
  • Tanzania: Tanzania Railways: Support to Finance and Supplies Department
  • Poland: Financial Management for Local Government
  • Tanzania: Personnel Control Study: Personnel Controls and Information Systems
  • Tanzania: Chief Advisor: Parastatal Reform
  • United Kingdom: Market Testing: Service Specification: Overseas Pensions Department
  • Zambia: Assistance with the Establishment of a Revenue Board
  • United Kingdom: Review of Crown Agents (I) and (II)
  • Total Value is 1992–93=£6.0 million

Touche Ross

  1. (a) DIPLOMATIC WING
    • 1991–92 Nil
    • 1992–93 Nil
  2. (b) AID WING

1991–92

  • Hungary: Assistance to Budapest Stock Exchange in the Establishment of New Trading
  • Zambia: Adviser: Privatisation of Public Enterprises
  • Romania: Climate Change Study
  • Global: Management and Operational Plan to Interim Multi Ozone Fund
  • Total Value=£0.43 million

1992–93 Nil

Price Waterhouse

  1. (a) DIPLOMATIC WING
    • 1991–92 Finance Accounts System—Value=£0.27 million
    • 1992–93 Finance Accounts System—Value=£0.21 million
  2. (b) AID WING

1991–92

  • Czechoslovakia: Organisation and Business Review of Agrobank — Value=£39,000

1992–93

  • Malawi: Further Assistance to Department of Statutory Bodies
  • Tanzania: Tanzania Railways: Review of Pensions
  • Total Value=£0.33 million

Ernst and Young

(a) DIPLOMATIC WING

1991–92

  • Heavy Baggage Contract—Value=£20,000

1992–93

  • Overseas Estates Procurement—Value=£59,000

(b) AID WING

1991–92

  • Czechoslovakia: Slovak National Insurance Co. Privatisation
  • Czechoslovakia: Voucher Privatisation—Secondary Market Study: Consultant Advisor
  • Czechoslovakia: Voucher Privatisation Programme
  • Czechoslovakia: Assistance with Privatisation Policy: Stage 2
  • Total Value=£1.74 million

1992–93

  • Czechoslovakia: Voucher Privatisation—Secondary Market Study II
  • Total Value=£0.18 million

Chrichton Roberts Ltd

  1. (a) DIPLOMATIC WING
    • 1991–92—Nil
    • 1992–93—Nil
  2. (b) AID WING
    • 1991–92—Nil
    • 1992–93—Nil

KPMG Management Consultants

  1. (a) DIPLOMATIC WING
    • 1991–92—Review of Career Planning—Value=£0.35 million
    • 1992–93—Nil
  2. (b) Aid Wing
    • 1991–92
    • Guyana: Public Service Review Phase III
    • Ghana and Kenya: Country Studies: Climate Change
    • Uganda: Civil Service Reform
    • Guyana: Public Service Review Phase II
    • Tanzania: Debt Reconciliation
    • Czechoslovakia: Privatisation of the CESKA Insurance Company
    • Poland: Assistance to Insurance Division of Ministry of Finance
    • Total Value=£2.03 million

1992–93

  • Poland: Agricultural Development Fund
  • St. Kitts: Offshore Financial Services Consultant
    • 761
  • United Kingdom: Review of Services Provided by OACD
  • Romania: Procurement Advice for Information Systems
  • India: Singareni Colliery Spares Management/Incentive Study
  • United Kingdom: Market Testing of Natural Resources Institute
  • United Kingdom: Development of Costing Module at Natural Resources Institute
  • Total Value=£0.38 million

LEOPOLD JOSEPH MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS

  1. (a) Diplomatic Wing
    • 1991–92 Nil
    • 1992–93 Nil
  2. (b) Aid Wing
    • 1991–92 Nil
    • 1992–93 Nil

Ms. Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many contracts for consultancies were awarded by his Department over(a) the last 12 months and (b) 1991–92.

Mr. Goodlad

The numbers of contracts for consultancies awarded by the diplomatic and aid wings of the Department in 1991–92 and 1992–93 to 31 January 1993 are as follows:

1991–92 1992–93
Diplomatic wing 396 482
Aid wing 948 883
Total 1,344 1,365

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