HC Deb 21 February 1995 vol 255 cc127-8W
Ms Glenda Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will update his answer to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) of 14 July 1994,Official Report, column 724–27, to show for all consultants and other outside organisations or individuals currently or previously employed by his Department for advice or assistance in rail privatisation (a) the name of the consultancy, organisation or individual (b) the length of the contract offered to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (c) the total amount inclusive of VAT paid to date to each consultancy, organisation or individual, (d) the total amount inclusive of VAT 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. Watts

Information about payments to individual contractors is commercially confidential.

Payments made to consultants currently or previously employed by the Department total £22.5 million.

Consultants currently employed by the Department are:

Organisation
Linklaters and Paines Legal advice
Freshfields Legal advice
Samuel Montagu Merchant banking
Hambros
SG Warburg
KPMG Peat Marwick Accountancy and taxation
Ernst and Young Accountancy
Price Waterhouse Accountancy
Shandwick Marketing
Gresham Marketing
Ernst and Young Information systems
Richard Ellis Property matters
Sedgwick Insurance
Brodies Advice on Scots law
Travers Morgan Advice on BR/Railtrack infrastructure contracts
Ernst and Young Advice on BR infrastructure contracts and sales

Consultants previously employed by the Department are:

Organisation
Arthur D Little Research
Coopers and Lybrand Access and access charging
Mercer Management Freight and Franchising
Norman Broadbent Recruitment
Putnam Hayes and Bartlett Access and access charging
Debenham Tewson and Chinnocks Property matters
NERA Regulatory matters
Deloitte Haskins and Sells Industry structure
Dewe Rogerson Marketing

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