HC Deb 14 June 1994 vol 244 cc450-2W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage 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. Sproat

Since it was established in April 1992, my Department and its two agencies awarded contracts as follows:

  1. (a) KPMG—seven contracts valued at approximately £186,000.
  2. (b) Touche Ross—two contracts valued at approximately £210,000.
  3. (c) Price Waterhouse—three contracts valued at approximately £221,000.
  4. (d) Ernst and Young—four contracts valued at approximately £162,000.
  5. (e) CSL—nil.
  6. (f) Prime—nil.
  7. (g) Basis—nil.
  8. (h) Theodore Goddard—nil.
  9. (i) Dibb Lupton Broomhead—nil.
  10. (j) Capita Management Consultancy—one contract valued at approximately £34,000.
  11. (k) Shreeveport—nil.

Contracts valued at approximately £6 million have been awarded to the following 86 organisations:

  1. Accord Group—TYZACK
  2. ADAS
  3. AIBS
  4. Ajax Health and Safety
  5. Alan Rhodes Associates
  6. Alter Ego
  7. Baker, Wilkins and Smith
  8. BDM Limited
  9. Bedford Timber Preservation
  10. BMRB International
  11. Brenda White Associates
  12. Capita Management Consultancy Ltd.
  13. Cluttons
  14. Communication by Design Ltd.
  15. Coopers and Lybrand
  16. Crane Davies Limited
  17. Cumbria Tourist Board
  18. David Jacques
  19. David Greaves
  20. Derek Etherington
  21. Donald Piggot
  22. Drivas Jonas
  23. Engineering Surveys Ltd.
  24. Ernst and Young
  25. Feilden and Mawson
  26. Fitch
  27. Food Services Associates (Henley) Ltd.
  28. GAH Limited
  29. Halcrow Fox
  30. Heart of England Tourist Board
  31. HH&S Ltd.
  32. Humberts Leisure Ltd.
  33. Institute of Manpower Studies
  34. J. M. Consulting Ltd.
  35. John Sumsion
  36. John Herbert Partnership
  37. John Barnes
  38. Kennedy and Donkin
  39. Korn Ferry International
  40. KPMG
  41. Land Use Consultants
  42. Lawrence Graham
  43. Library and Information Co-operation Council
  44. Light Projects
  45. Lowe Bell Communications
  46. Mason
  47. Mercer Management Consultants
  48. MEW Research
  49. Moon Communications
  50. National Economic Research Associators
  51. Naylor Conservation
  52. North West Tourist Board
  53. Northamptonshire Archaeological Unit
  54. Numbers Market Research Limited
  55. P. Flaxman
  56. PA Consultancy
  57. Paper White Design Consultants
  58. PE International
  59. Peter Morley Associates Ltd.
  60. Positive Solutions
  61. Price Waterhouse
    62. 452
  62. Research International
  63. Review team appointed consisting of Professor Richard Marks and Richard Munday
  64. RM Consultants
  65. RMJM and Caroe and Partners
  66. Royston Brown
  67. Search Training International Ltd.
  68. Sema Group Systems Ltd.
  69. Stoy Haward
  70. Symonds
  71. TA Consultancy
  72. Tectus
  73. The Jenkins Group
  74. The Conservation Practice
  75. Thesaurus
  76. Touche Ross
  77. Towers Perrin
  78. University of London
  79. University of Cambridge
  80. Vital Statistics Limited
  81. Warrington Fire Research
  82. Watts and Partners
  83. William Page
  84. WLF Pierce and Partners
  85. Yorks and Humberside Tourist Board

It is not possible, without involving disproportionate cost, to give figures for each of the three financial years since the Department was established.