Written question asked by Gordon Marsden (Labour) on Tuesday, 17 May 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 May 2011. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 23 May 2011 on behalf of the Department for Education.

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Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator: Consultants

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator paid to (a) Grant Thornton in relation to the study on the Collection of Economic and Financial Information, (b) Frontier Economics in relation to the study on the Markets for Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, (c) Reckon LLP in relation to the study on Increasing Transparency of Qualification Fees, (d) PKF (UK) LLP in relation to the study on the Review of Awarding Bodies' Fees, (e) Grant Thornton in relation to the study on the Reasonableness of Fees in Other Widely Used Qualifications and (f) PricewaterhouseCoopers in relation to the Efficiency Study of the Regulated Qualifications System.