HC Deb 13 June 2000 vol 351 cc613-4W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to her answer of 19 January 2000,Official Report, column 443W, concerning contracts, if she will list the companies concerned and whether these contracts were subject to a competitive tendering process. [124825]

Mr. Stringer

Details of companies concerned and whether they were subject to a competitive tendering process are given in the table:

Name of company Competitively tendered
AT Kearney No
BMRB International No
Close, Morton and Company No
Competitive Contract Services No
Garavi Gujarat No
Hymans Robertson1 Yes
Opinion Leader Research No
Pannell Kerr Forster/Knight Frank Yes
Price WaterhouseCoopers1 Yes
Rawlings and Co.1 No
Schneider-Ross Yes
South Thames Consultancy Yes
1 Two contracts