asked the Minister for Labour if he will state, in tabular form, the total sum spent by his Department on outside professional consultancies of all kinds in each of the years 1970 to date.
Written Answers. - Professional Consultancies.
680.
Since 1976 on the instructions of the Department of Finance, expenditure on outside professional consultancies has been charged ordinarily to a separate subhead entitled "Consultancy Services" in the Vote for Labour. Expenditure from that subhead has been as follows:
|
Year |
Expenditure £ |
|
1976 |
20,500 |
|
1977 |
Nil |
|
1978 |
Nil |
|
1979 |
Nil |
|
1980 |
2,950 |
|
1981 |
8,531 |
|
1982 |
Nil |
|
1983 |
2,204 |
|
1984 |
16,833 |
|
1985 (to 30 April) |
3,245 |
It would not be possible in the time available and without a disproportionate expenditure of staff time to produce figures for the years prior to 1976 or to carry out a detailed analysis of the extent to which other expenditure on consultancies may have been properly charged to appropriate functional subheads of the Vote.