HC Deb 29 January 1993 vol 217 c891W
Ms. Mowlam

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the contracts awarded by his Department to KPMG Management Consultants over the past 12 months.

Mr. Gummer

No such contracts have been awarded by my core-Department. The appointment of consultants by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food agencies is a matter delegated to chief executives. The chief executives of ADAS and the Central Science Laboratory advise me, however, that they made use of KPMG in 1992 and will write to the hon. Member with details.

Letter from P. Stanley to Ms. Marjorie Mowlam, dated 21 January 1993: The contracts awarded to KPMG Management Consultants by the Central Science Laboratory over the past 12 months are as follows:

  1. (1) Appraisal of laboratory information management systems
  2. (2) Pay and Grading: Initial consideration of options
  3. (3) Human resource database: User requirement definition

Letter from J. Walsh to Ms. Marjorie Mowlam, dated 29 January 1993: I am responding on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to your Parliamentary Question regarding contracts awarded by his Department to KPMG Management Consultants over the past 12 months. The following consultancy services were commissioned from KPMG by ADAS over that period:

  • Software support for the Toolbox runtime package.
  • UNIX system configuration.
  • A review of ADAS networking,

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