Consultants (Hansard, 18 April 1994)

§ Mr. Milburn
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 24 March,Official Report, columns 428–9, if he will list the firms of consultants employed by his Department and the number of contracts they have undertaken in each of the last five years.

§ Mr. Eggar
The information requested cannot be provided other than at disproportionate cost.

§ Mr. Matthew Taylor
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what information technology consultants his Department has employed; for what purpose; and at what total cost for each of the last five years.
360W

§ Mr. Eggar
The Department has employed a wide range of information technology consultants and contractors from many sources over the last five years, for the purposes of assisting the development of IT strategies, and all aspects of their implementation, including support for project management, project support, systems analysis, computer programming, system testing, and IT security. Expenditure on such resources for the last five years, for which information is held centrally, and excludes agencies, is as follows:

Year £K

1989–90 2,015

1990–91 3,492

1991–92 5,072

1992–93 6,909

1993–94 5,247

Year	£K
1989–90	2,015
1990–91	3,492
1991–92	5,072
1992–93	6,909
1993–94	5,247