HC Deb 15 October 2002 vol 390 c663W
David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list external(a) public relations/ commercial companies, (b) advertising and marketing companies, (c) management consultancies, (d) accountancy companies, (e) banking firms, (f) individual consultants and (g) other specialist consultancies used by her Department since June 2001; what actions those consultancies/companies have performed within her Department; and what cost have been incurred through use of these consultancies/ companies. [74683]

Clare Short

Information in the format requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost but DFID has let consultancy contracts to a value of approximately £300 million in 2001–2002.

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