HC Deb 20 January 1993 vol 217 c295W
Ms. Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list the contracts awarded by her Department to KPMG Management Consultants over the past 12 months.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Contracts for consultancies awarded to KPMG Management Consultants in the current financial year (1992–93) were as follows:

  • A review of the training development arrangements in the Department's training, enterprise and education directorate.
  • A feasibility study on output related funding for TECs.
  • A workshop on market testing for managers in the Department's business services division.
  • An assessment of the scope for market testing in the Department's economics, research and evaluation division.
  • A study into the distribution of HSE publications.
  • A review of the roles and functions of SEOs/business managers in the Department.
  • To produce and disseminate (in two contracts) extensions of manuals on key skills for the training of trainers.
  • The office of manpower economics also awarded the following contracts to KPMG Management Consultants in 1992–93;
  • Work relating to the civil service grades 5 to 7 pay levels survey. Work associated with the schoolteachers' pay review body (two contracts).