§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what are her latest estimates of the expenditure on all external consultants, including management consultants, for each year since 1987, in 1994 prices, for her Department and its agencies; and what are the quantified annual cost savings which such expenditure has resulted in.
§ Mr. BoswellThe figures requested, at 1994 prices, are as a follows:
Year £ 1987 502,221 1988 569,882 1989 673,650 1990 1,096,699 1991 1,597,599 1992 2,012,962 1993 1,629,000 1994 1,800,000 The information is not readily available to enable resultant cost savings to be calculated.