External Consultants

HC Deb 16 January 2003 vol 397 c696W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the total cost to his Department was of the use of external consultants in 2002. [90515]

Mr. Jamieson

My Department was formed on 29 May 2002. Expenditure on external consultants by my Department during the remainder of 2002 was £93.1 million.