HC Deb 14 July 1994 vol 246 cc724-7W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) of 22 March,Official Report, columns 283–84, if he will show for all consultants or other outside organisation or individuals currently or previously employed by the Office of the Rail Regulator (a) the name of the consultancy, organisation or individual, (b) the length of contract offered to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (c) the total amount inclusive of value added tax paid to date to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (d) the total amount inclusive of value added tax expected to be paid to each consultancy, organisation or individual and (e) the services required by the Office of the Rail Regulator from each consultancy, organisation or individual; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

[holding answer 5 July 1994]: The Rail Regulator informs me that the consultants shown in the tables have been employed by his office.

Consultant Period Paid to date Services provided
Slaughter & May Ongoing £260,230 Legal advice
Sedgwick UK Ltd Ongoing £6,374 Advice insurance issues affecting the privatized rail industry

B. Specific projects
Consultant Paid to date Further payments due Services provided
Kinsley Lord £18,048 1 Review of organisation and structure
W. S. Atkins Nil £8,400 Health and Safety policy development and implementation
Information Processing Ltd Nil £6,000 Provision of advice and support on evaluation of IT network procurement
Central Computing Communications Agency Nil £25,000 Development of departmental information systems strategy
Interconnect Communications Ltd £4,900 £2,000 Technical advice and support for purchase and installation of office telephone system
1This will depend upon the detailed arrangements for subsequent stages of the assignment.

In addition, Dr. Stephen Glaister and Mr. Gordon Pettitt have been appointed to provide advice as required in the fields of, respectively, transport economics and railway operational matters. It would not be appropriate to publish details of the terms of these personal appointments.

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) of 22 March,Official Report, column 146, if he will show for all consultants or other outside organisations or individuals currently or previously employed by his Department for advice or assistance in rail privatisation, (a) the name of the

£ million
Linklaters & Paines Legal advice 5.6
Samuel Montagu Merchant banking 2.0
KPMG Peat Marwick Accountancy & Taxation 3.3
Dewe Rogerson1 Marketing 0.7
Shandwick Marketing 0.0
Ernst & Young Information systems 0.8
Richard Ellis Property matters 0.4
Sedgwick Insurance 0.1
Brodies Advice on Scots law 0.02
Travers Morgan Specialist advice on BRIS contract pricing 0.0
Ernst & Young Corporate finance advice on BRIS contract pricing 0.0
1Contract terminates on 12 August 1994.

Future payments to these firms will depend on work done.

£ million
Arthur D. Little Research 0.1
Coopers and Lybrand Access and access charging 2.3
Mercer Management Freight and Franchising 1.2
Norman Broadbent Recruitment 0.1
Putnam Hayes and Bartlett Access and Access charging 0.2
Debenham Tewson and Chinnocks Property matters 0.02
NERA Regulatory matters 1
Deloitte Haskins and Sells Industry structure 1
1Contracts completed prior to April 1991; information can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Further payments will depend on future work commissioned.

consultancy, organisation or individual, (b) the length of contract offered to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (c) the total amount inclusive of value added tax paid to date to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (d) the total amount inclusive of value added tax expected to be paid to each consultancy, organisation or individual and (e) the services required by his Department from each consultancy, organisation or individual; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

[holding answer 5 July 1994]: Consultants currently employed by the Department, the services they provide, and payments made to date are:

Consultants previously employed by the Department, services provided and payments made were:

Contracts for consultancy advice are normally offered on an on-going basis with provision for the Department to terminate the contract.

A number of individuals have been employed by the Department to advise on rail privatisation matters, but information on payments to such individuals is commercially confidential.

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