§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consultancy contracts have been let by his Department as part of the "Front Line First" review; which companies have won contracts; and what sums of money are involved.
§ Mr. FreemanBAe Sema, Price Waterhouse, Monk Dunstone Associates, McKenna and Co. and P-E International provided advice to the defence costs study. A number of individuals from outside Government, as listed in the answer given to the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) on 29 April,Official Report, column 399, were engaged to provide advice to the defence costs study teams.
Not all those listed charged for their services, although the companies for which some worked did. Those companies were:
- Capita Managed Services Ltd.
- Jones Lang Wootton
- Trias Management Consultants
- Ian McNeil Associates
- Central Research Laboratories Ltd.
The total cost in fees to the Ministry of Defence of the work done in the study phase of "Front Line First" inclusive of VAT is £396,597. This total includes an estimate of the elements of the costs of contracts held with BAe Sema and Price Waterhouse prior to the DCS, the terms of which were changed to reflect, inter alia, work done on the DCS.