Margaret Hodge – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Hodge on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.

Sir Alan Duncan

DELOITTE
2013/14:£69,000
2014/15:£33,000
2015/16:£121,000

ERNST & YOUNG
2013/14:£480,000
2014/15:£328,000
2015/16:£181,000

KPMG
2013/14:£140,000
2014/15:£116,000
2015/16:£132,000

PWC
2013/14:£355,000
2014/15:£377,000
2015/16:£1,420,000

Consultants
2013/14:£1,500,000
2014/15:£1,600,000
2015/16:£1,100,000

All applicable expenditure with these companies is published as part of HMG’s Transparency Agenda at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/foreign-office-spend-over-25000.