§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each of the last five years the cost to public funds of consultancy work provided by(a) KPMG Peat Marwick, (b) Touche Ross, (c) Price Waterhouse, (d) Ernst and Young, (e) CSL, (f) Prime, (g) Basis, (h) Theodore Goddard, (i) Dibb Lupton Broomhead, (j) Capita and (k) Shreeveport to his Department; and if he will list any other firms which have provided consultancy work and the costs to public funds for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. RedwoodI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Kilburn) on 15 April 1994,Official Report, columns 318–20, which provides details of individual consultancy firms employed by the Welsh Office since 1988–89.
The Department's total expenditure on management consultancies is as follows:
£ thousands 1988–89 479 1989–90 342 1990–91 229 1991–92 1,109 1992–93 1,416 1993–94 1,454 Details of expenditure with individual firms cannot be disclosed for reasons of commercial confidentiality.