HC Deb 27 January 1994 vol 236 cc341-2W
Ms Abbott

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment 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. Baldry

Consultancy work awarded to accountancy firms during 1992 and 1993 is detailed below with a total value respectively of £1.6 million and £886,000. No merchant banks were awarded consultancy work during the period in question. It is not our policy to reveal the cost of individual contracts.

Consultant and Description 1992

BDO Binder Hamlyn

  • Cost Analysis of Estates Commissions

Coopers & Lybrand

  • Security Furniture Review
  • Financial Recovery
  • Contract Costing
  • Invoice Support

Coopers & Lybrand

  • Tyne and Wear Development

Deloitte

  • Corporation "Health Check"

Ernst & Young

  • Computer Operational Requirement Study
  • PSA Projects Completion Balance Sheet
  • London Docklands Development Corporation "Health Check"
  • Leeds Development Corporation "Health Check"
  • Information Systems Strategy—Financial Management Requirements

Kidsons Impey

  • External Audit of SDC92/3
  • LDC "Health Check"

Price Waterhouse

  • External Audit of SDC92/3
  • Design Improvement
  • Teeside Development Corporation "Health Check"
  • Merseyside Development Corporation "Health Check"
  • Trafford Park Development Corporation "Health Check"

Chapman Hendy Assoc.

  • Hull HAT Financial Model

KPMG

  • Business Support
  • Audit
  • Contract Review
  • Adviser to Chief Planning Inspector

Touche Ross

  • Interim Accounting Advice for PINS Agency
  • Central Manchester Development Corporation "Health Check"
  • Black Country Development Corporation "Health Check"

R. E. Jones & Co

  • Financial Audit of Projects
  • Financial Audit of Projects

Sachdevs

  • Underspace NNEB III

1993

BDO Consulting

  • Client/Contractor Split for Housing Management CCT

Coopers & Lybrand

  • IT Implications for Housing Management CCT
  • Small Authorities and Housing Management CCT
  • Computer Design Study

Ernst & Young

  • Security Services Group Efficiency Review
  • Docklands Railway Privatisation Study
  • Docklands Light Railway Privatisation
  • Building Management Completion Balance Sheet
  • Inspector Scheduling Business Study

Kidson Impey

  • Financial Audit of Task Force Projects
  • (1) Auditing of Task Force Projects
  • (2) Auditing of Task Force Projects
  • (3) Auditing of Task Force Projects
  • (4) Auditing of Task Force Projects
  • Financial Audit of Projects (Phase 1)
  • Financial Audit of Projects (Phase 2)

Price Waterhouse

  • SDC "Health Check"
  • Sheffield Development Corporation "Health Check"

KPMG

  • The TBA Options Study

Touche Ross

  • Independent Professional Advice

R. E. Jones and Co.

  • Financial Audit of Projects

Moore Stephens

  • Review of Financial Control Systems

Clarke Whitehall

  • Treatment of VAT

Kumar and Co.

  • Financial Audit of Projects (WLTF)

J. Debson

  • Financial Audit of Projects

Castle Management Consultants

  • Independent Financial Advice on Market Testing

Grant Thornton

  • Financial Audit of TF Projects

Norstel Ltd.

  • Study into Structure and Funding of Vine Street

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