HC Deb 04 May 1994 vol 242 c575W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will estimate the cost of employing consultants in connection with privatisation programmes in which his Department has been engaged since 1980.

Sir John Wheeler

The information requested is not available in the Northern Ireland Office nor in all of the Northern Ireland Departments prior to 1989. However, from April 1989 to March 1994 the cost of employing consultants in connection with privatisation programmes in the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments was £13.4 million.