§ Bob SpinkTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultants and advisers each year since its creation. [172397]
§ Yvette CooperThe Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created in May 2002. In the two years since then the spend on external consultants and advisers for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, its agencies and the non-departmental public bodies are as follows:
£ The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002–03 76,000,000 2003–04 47,000,000 The Executive agencies and NDPBs 2002–03 5,356,822 2003–04 6,305,906 The above figures do not include the Audit Commission, as its expenditure is an operational matter. I will ask the Chief Executive to write to the hon. Member.