HC Deb 20 January 1994 vol 235 cc725-6W
Ms Abbott

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the(a) accountancy firms and (b) merchant banks to which his Department awarded private consultancy work in 1992 and 1993, together with a list of the consultancies concerned and the amount paid.

Mr. Boswell

During 1992 and 1993 the Department awarded consultancy contracts to the following firms:

(a) Accountancy Firms

  • Audit Consultancy and Training Ltd.
  • Accountancy Personnel
  • Capita Management Consultancy Ltd.
  • Coopers and Lybrand
  • CSL Group Ltd.
  • E. A. Alcock Ltd.
  • Ernst and Young Management Consultants
  • KPMG Management Consulting
  • Michael Paige Finance Ltd.
  • Price Waterhouse
  • Touche Ross

Merchant Banks

N. M Rothschild

The consultancies were as follows:

  • Advice to the Department on the application of the Government's private finance initiative in education
  • Review of the Department's Central Accounts Branch
  • Internal Audit Assistance
  • Preparation of Colleges for Independence
  • Financial Management Survey at the Schools Examinations and Assessment Council
  • Scoping Study for Information Services Branch
  • Corporate Plan for Information Services Branch
  • Market Testing Assistance
  • Telecommunications and Distance Working within the Department
  • Financial Management Survey at the Agriculture and Food Research Council
  • Teachers' Pensions Agency Customer Survey
  • Review of Data Collection Processing
  • Financial Management Survey of Charging at Research Councils
  • Audit of Pensions Administration System Project
  • Financial Review at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  • Financial Consultancy; Grant Maintained Schools Sector
  • Capital Equipment Survey at Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges
  • Review of Filing Storage Strategy for Teachers' Pensions Agency
  • Assistance in Preparing Colleges for Independence from Local Authority Control
  • Local Education Authority Income and Expenditure Review
  • Review of Outturn Expenditure Returns for Grant Maintained Schools and Local Education Authorities
  • Financial Management Survey at the National Curriculum Council
  • Review of Pensions Payments Options for Teachers' Pensions 726 Agency
  • Future Strategy Consultancy
  • Review of Grant Maintained Schools
  • School Curriculum Assessment Authority Accountancy Review
  • Systems Review at School Curriculum Assessment Authority
  • Financial Management Review of City Technology Colleges
  • Impact of Regulations and Statistics on Schools
  • Review of Payments to Grant Maintained Schools
  • Objectives Setting Staff Training
  • Scoping Study for Teachers' Pensions Agency
  • Grant Maintained Schools Business Consultancy
  • Review of VAT costs to Grant Maintained Schools
  • Financial Management Survey at Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges
  • The total value of the contracts was £2.39 million.