External Consultants

HC Deb 24 November 1999 vol 339 cc115-6W

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been spent by his Department on external consultants and advisers since May 1997 funded from (i) his Department's programme provision and (ii) his Department's running costs.[99488]

Mr. Kilfoyle

This information cannot be provided since the Department no longer breaks down its expenditure against these categories.