<p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change entered into a contract for the provision of transactional HR and finance services in November 2013 and incurred expenditure of £0.5m during 2013-14. This is equivalent to 0.01% of total departmental expenditure for the year. In previous years the equivalent services were provided to DECC by other government departments. Expenditure on these services in 2014-15 is forecast to be approximately £1.2m and to account for a similar proportion of total expenditure.</p>