HC Deb 26 January 1994 vol 236 cc295-6W
Dr. Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Education on which occasions since 1979 his Department has employed the services of external consultants; and if he will give details of the purposes for which they were employed and the cost of employing them.

Mr. Boswell

I have placed in the Library a list of the projects on which consultants were engaged in each year since 1987. The total cost of these was £7.4 million. Information for the years prior to 1987 is not available in the form requested.