§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many contracts and for what total sum were let out by her Department and agencies for which it is responsible to(a) Coopers and Lybrand, (b) KPMG Peat Marwick, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) Price Waterhouse, (e) Arthur Andersen, (f) Touche Ross, (g) Grant Thornton, (h) Robson Rhodes and (i) Pannell Kerr Forster for (i) privatisation, (ii) market testing, (iii) management advice, (iv) accounting, (v) audit, (vi) consultancy and (vii) other services in (1) 1980 to 1983, (2) 1984 to 1987, (3) 1988 to 1991 and (4) 1992–93.
§ Mr. JackThe table gives the aggregate costs of contracts with each of the nine named consultants for the financial years 1990–91 to 1993–94 let by the Department and its agencies, excluding the Intervention Board executive agency.
Consultant 1990–91 to 1993–94 £ Number of Consultant Coopers and Lybrand 662,065 18 KPMG Peat Marwick 518,343 6 Ernst and Young 2,683,262 8 Price Waterhouse 849,919 20 Arthur Andersen 0 0 Touche Ross 844,580 10 Grant Thornton 1— 1 Robson Rhodes 0 0 Pannell Kerr Forster 0 0 1Single contract cost not given for reasons of commercial confidentiality. The partial cost of some contracts started before 1990 are included in those figures. Neither records relating to individual consultants before 1990 nor breakdowns by type of contract are held centrally and those details could be made available only at disproportionate cost.