§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the projects undertaken since 1992 by the Office of Public Service where outside consultants have been employed; and if he will list the contract fee and consultant in each case. [39831]
§ Mr. FreemanThe details of individual consultancy contracts let by the Office of Public Service and its agencies where outside consultants may have been used in some part of the contract are not held centrally in the form requested. The full information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
861WHowever, the costs of external consultancy contracts let by the Office of Public Service and its agencies in the last two completed financial years are as follows:
Year £ 1993–94 5,697,880 1994–95 5,832,044 The greater part of these totals was consultancy to CCTA, the Government Centre for Information Systems, mainly for the benefit of other Departments.