§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 26 March 2002,Official Report, column 821W, regarding the use of external consultants, if he will list each of the projects, and the purpose for which external consultants were used, in each of the last four years. [50392]
§ Mr. LeslieIn the last four years my Department has used external consultants on a number of projects and assignments, which have included work on: e-Government; Y2K; civil service and public sector reform; the new civil service pensions scheme; social exclusion; and domestic IT systems.
Details of individual projects are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.