Home Office spending on its top five consultants almost
trebled from £27.3m to £77.8m in the past year as it
wrestled with two huge and controversial projects, thenational identity schemeand
theinterception modernisation
programme.
The big winners were PA Consulting and Deloitte & Touche,
which between them have taken £61.6m in the past two years.
The
information was published in response to a Freedom of
Information request.
The Home Office spending on consultants totalled £148m, £96m and
£140m in 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2008/9 respectively, it said.
The Home Office said the increase shown with PA Consulting was
in relation to its work on the Interception Modernisation Programme
(IMP) and National Identity Scheme (NIS).
The IMP, on which the government is consulting, is a plan to
collect and process all data related to mobile and internet phone
calls, as well as e-mails and web searches, generated or passing
through the UK.
"Spend volumes are predicted to decrease in 2009-10, given the
closure of their work on these programmes," the Home Office
said.
"Delloitte's (sic) and E&Y was also primarily in support of
the NIS programme. KPMG work is in primarily supporting our
Quest and
Olympic
Security
programmes. The Accenture work is primarily in support of the
Points Based Systems and
Category Management programmes."
Operation Quest is a Home Office programme to improve
operational processes in the police service. The Accenture projects
relate to immigration and border control.
The Home Office said all the contracts were subject to a
competitive process managed by its commercial directorate, with
negotiated terms and conditions tied to outcomes and knowledge
transfer to civil servants.
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| Home Office spending on top five consultants
(£m) | | | |
|---|
| |
| | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | Total |
| |
| PA Consulting | 8.4 | 24.5 | 32.9 |
| Deloitte & Touche | 7.7 | 21 | 28.7 |
| KPMG | 4.6 | 16.2 | 20.8 |
| WalkerCox | 3.4 | | 3.4 |
| Detica Ltd | 3.2 | | 3.2 |
| Ernst & Young | | 13.8 | 13.8 |
| Accenture Ltd | | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| |
| Total | 27.3 | 77.8 | 105.1 |
| |
| Source: Home Office | | | |