Written question asked by Lord Bruce of Bennachie (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 29 January 1996. It was answered by John M Taylor (Conservative) on Monday, 29 January 1996 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

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Dept of Trade and Industry;Government Chemist;Patent Office;National Weights and Measures Laboratory;Companies House;Radiocommunications Agency;Insolvency Service

Question

What assessment he has made of the expenditure of his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on all external consultants including management consultants for each of the years (a) 1979-80, (b) 1989-90, (c) 1991-92, (d) 1993-94, (e) 1994-95 and (f) 1995-96 (i) to date and (ii) as estimated for the whole year; what estimate he has made of such expenditure for 1996-97; and if he will estimate the savings accruing to his Department from the use of consultants in each of these years. - Inc text of letters from R D Worswick of the Government Chemist; P R S Hartnack of the Patent Office; Seton Bennett of the National Weights and Measures Laboratory; David Durham of the Companies House Executive Agency; Michael Goddard of the Radiocommunications Agency and Peter Joyce of the Insolvency Service, inc figs (holding answer 25 January 1996).

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

11387; 270 c516-20W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Executive agencies Consultants Department of Trade and Industry Expenditure Government departments Insolvency Service Non-departmental public bodies Patent Office Companies House Management consultants Government Chemist Radiocommunications Agency National Weights and Measures Laboratory

Contains statistics

Yes