KPMG (Hansard, 2 March 1999)

§ Mr. Byers

[holding answer 22 February 1999] Information on contracts let to KPMG is not held centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The above information does not include contracts let by the Department's Executive Agencies, and I have asked the respective Chief Executives to reply separately to this question.

Letter from Desmond Flynn to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: You asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he would list the services that KPMG have performed for his Department (a) since I May 1997 and (b) in the corresponding period to 1 May 1997, indicating the remuneration made in each case. In the absence of Peter Joyce, the Chief Executive, I have been asked to reply on behalf of The Insolvency Service. KPMG, as an organisation, have not performed any services for The Insolvency Service in the periods in question. Payments have however been made to KPMG in relation to work done by individual members of the firm in relation to disqualification proceedings brought against directors of failed companies where those individuals acted as liquidator, administrative receiver or administrator of the company. The fees paid for such work are as follows:

(a) since 1 May 1997 £85,600
(b) in the corresponding period prior to 1 May 1997 £72,100.

Letter from Ian Jones to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: You recently tabled a Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry about the services that KPMG have performed for his Department. I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Employment Tribunals Service (ETS) which is an executive agency of the DTI. The ETS has not engaged the services of KPMG.

Letter from David Hendon to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply on behalf of the Radiocommunications Agency to your Parliamentary Question about the Agency's use of KPMG. This Agency entered into no contracts with KPMG since 1 May 1997. It used KPMG's services on one occasion before that date. In financial year 1996/97 the Agency commissioned KPMG to provide financial advice on the establishment of a joint venture company. The remuneration amounted to £120,244 ex-VAT.

Letter from Dr. Seton Bennett to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply on behalf of the National Weights and Measures Laboratory to your question about the services that KPMG have performed for the Agency both prior to and since 1 May 1997. Since its creation as a Next Steps Agency in 1989, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory has not availed itself of the services of KPMG.

Letter from P. R. S. Hartnack to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: I am replying for the Patent Office to your question to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry about the services performed by KPMG and details of any remuneration made by the Patent Office. I can confirm that a nil return is appropriate.

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Letter from John Holden to Mr. David Ruffley, dated 26 February 1999: I have now been invited to reply directly to you concerning your question, no 72013, tabled on 16 February 1999, asking the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the services that KPMG have performed for his Department since 1st May 1997 and in the corresponding period prior to 1^st May 1997. I can advise that KPMG have provided consultancy support in developing the business case for the introduction of the Government Procurement Card between October 1998 and March 1999. The consultancy was commissioned by the Treasury and has been undertaken at no cost to Companies House.