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I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question on 19 March 2008, (Official Report, columns 1168-69W) about the costs relating to the in-country recruiting team in Nepal.
| Financial year | £ |
|
2003-04
|
247,900
|
|
2004-05
|
216,800
|
|
2005-06
|
243,200
|
|
2006-07
|
245,700
|
|
2007-08
|
241,200
|
Note:
Figures in pounds rounded to the nearest 100.
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Departmental Contracts
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what contracts were awarded by his Department to (a) KPMG, (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) McKinsey, (e) Deloitte and (f) other consultancy firms in each of the last 12 months; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) value was of each of these contracts. [196585]
Derek Twigg:
The following information reflects contracts awarded for Management and Business Consultancy,
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Finance and Accountancy Consultancy, Corporate Governance and Audit Consultancy, and public-private partnership and Private Finance Initiative Consultancy support that have passed through a centralised approval process. The details do not contain contracts awarded by the MOD’s trading funds or agencies or for other types of consultancy which are not held centrally.
Information in relation to contracts awarded to ‘other consultancy firms’ in the past 12 months is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
However, summaries of MOD expenditure on External Assistance, which includes management and other types of consultancy since 1995-96 are available in the Library of the House.
The Ministry of Defence has limited internal consultancy resources, which it prioritises to support the Department’s key business areas. The use of internal resources is always fully considered before engaging external consultancy assistance.
The Ministry of Defence recognises the benefits that can be gained from external consultancy assistance in driving forward its new management and business initiatives, but it is important that it is only commissioned when it can be demonstrated to be both appropriate, cost-effective and delivering value for money.
Details of contracts awarded in the last 12 months to the named companies are as follows:
| Purpose | Total contract value (£) |
|
KPMG
| |
|
MOD Streamlining (To design and help implement a programme to deliver the training, structural, behavioural, process and system changes required to Streamline the MOD Head Office and meet the required savings targets. In addition to this provide support to define and create a Corporate Services model for Defence)
|
4,000,000
|
|
Future Lynx Training Service Project Financial Services Support (To provide a synthetic training service for aircrew, ground crew and maintainers, and will include refresher and conversion to type training)
|
47,000
|
|
Corporate Financial Assistance Strategic Advice (External Assistance to provide a Strategic Advisory Service to the MOD’s Maritime Industrial Strategy Team)
|
109,000
|
| | |
|
PricewaterhouseCoopers
| |
|
Independent Review into the Nuclear Weapons Capability Sustainment
|
515,000
|
|
External Assistance for Blueprint Consultancy (To set out the strategic direction for the People, Pay and Pensions Agency (PPPA) ensuring a programme of change that is coherent, aligned and will achieve the desired end state by the agreed timeframe)
|
550,000
|
|
External Consultancy assistance for high level review of proposed new rates for MOD Employers Pension Contributions Payments
|
17,000
|
|
Benchmarking of Human Resources Shared Services (To measure and benchmark the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of key Human Resources processes that are delivered through Human Resources shared services in Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA). This will allow SPVA to benchmark itself against public and private sector peers, including MOD’s People, Pay and Pensions Agency (PPPA), highlighting best practice)
|
25,000
|
| | |
|
Ernst and Young
| |
|
No contracts awarded
|
—
|
| | |
|
McKinsey
| |
|
No contracts awarded
|
—
|
| | |
|
Deloitte
| |
|
Commercial Support for the Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) Project. (Provision of a short-term external commercial resource as part of the team to support a review of the BVRAAM Integrated Project Team)
|
46,000
|
|
External assistance Support to 16 Air Assault Brigade on Lean Transformation Programme—covering Support in applying the principles and techniques of Lean process design to the end to end support chain
|
113,000
|
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Strategic Client Adviser (The Future Submarine Project Team requires impartial independent expert support in order to provide programme assurance to give confidence to the Team Leader and MOD stakeholders that the team’s plans and activities make best use of the available resource)
|
2,000,000
|
|
Provide Independent financial review of the long term partnering agreement with BAE Systems
|
45,000
|
|
Independent Financial Review for future aircraft carrier (External Assistance to conduct an assessment of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance cost-model prior to the Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) manufacture contract signature and to support to CVF Integrated Project Team and Commercial Project Enablement Team in analysis of the supporting Shipyard estimate)
|
550,000
|
|
Development of Flexible Resourcing Approach for Defence Equipment and Support External Assistance support to design and pilot a Flexible Resourcing approach within Defence Equipment and Support. Flexible Resourcing is an industry-tested approach for maximising the utilisation of people resource within an organisation
|
448,000
|
|
Enquiry by Design Event (External assistance advice for the provision of financial support in analysis of data with a view to testing the feasibility of a Defence Estates Project)
|
10,000
|
|
Defence Equipment and Support Director General Safety and Engineering (DGSE) PACE (Performance, Agility, Confidence, Efficiency) for Value Stream Analysis—requirement for Consultancy Support in applying the principles and techniques of lean process design to the end to end support chain
|
108,000
|
|
External assistance for the maritime industrial strategy corporate finance accountancy support
|
268,000
|
Departmental Manpower
Dan Rogerson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) permanent civil service posts, (b) permanent non-civil Service posts and (c) temporary or agency workers in employment there were in his Department in each month since May 2005. [199623]
Derek Twigg:
The number of permanent civil service posts is not held centrally. The following tables show the number of permanent civilian personnel employed by the Department on a monthly basis since May 2005.
| MOD permanent personnel—1 May 2005 to 1 March 2008 |
| Headcount |
| Date of strength | MOD less trading funds | Trading funds | Total |
|
May 2005
|
80,240
|
10,720
|
90,960
|
|
June 2005
|
80,020
|
10,630
|
90,660
|
|
July 2005
|
79,720
|
10,570
|
90,280
|
|
August 2005
|
79,610
|
10,540
|
90,150
|
|
September 2005
|
79,210
|
10,490
|
89,700
|
|
October 2005
|
78,900
|
10,400
|
89,300
|
|
November 2005
|
78,790
|
10,350
|
89,140
|
|
December 2005
|
78,710
|
10,250
|
88,960
|
|
January 2006
|
77,490
|
10,970
|
88,460
|
|
February 2006
|
77,360
|
10,970
|
88,320
|
|
March 2006
|
77,210
|
10,950
|
88,160
|
| Headcount |
| Date of strength | MOD less trading funds | Trading funds | Total |
|
April 2006
|
76,640
|
10,720
|
87,360
|
|
May 2006
|
76,360
|
10,650
|
87,010
|
|
June 2006
|
76,180
|
10,610
|
86,790
|
|
July 2006
|
75,870
|
10,560
|
86,430
|
|
August 2006
|
75,290
|
10,580
|
85,870
|
|
September 2006
|
74,890
|
10,560
|
85,450
|
|
October 2006
|
74,590
|
10,530
|
85,120
|
|
November 2006
|
74,280
|
10,500
|
84,780
|
|
December 2006
|
74,170
|
10,490
|
84,660
|
|
January 2007
|
73,780
|
10,390
|
84,170
|
|
February 2007
|
73,640
|
10,380
|
84,020
|
|
March 2007
|
73,250
|
10,380
|
83,640
|
| Headcount |
| Date of strength | MOD less trading funds | Trading funds | Total |
|
April 2007
|
72,700
|
10,100
|
82,800
|
|
May 2007
|
72,280
|
10,090
|
82,370
|
|
Jun 2007
|
72,060
|
10,090
|
82,150
|
|
Jul 2007
|
71,800
|
10,060
|
81,860
|
|
Aug 2007
|
71,160
|
10,070
|
81,230
|
|
September 2007
|
70,800
|
10,070
|
80,870
|
|
October 2007
|
70,560
|
10,140
|
80,700
|
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November 2007
|
70,380
|
10,160
|
80,540
|
|
December 2007
|
69,970
|
10,310
|
80,280
|
|
January 2008
|
69,450
|
10,280
|
79,730
|
|
February 2008
|
69,270
|
10,380
|
79,640
|
|
March 2008
|
69,080
|
10,360
|
79,440
|
1. The tables above include all non-industrial and industrial permanent staff, (casual staff are excluded).
2. Royal Fleet Auxiliary and locally engaged civilians overseas are excluded because data regarding their permanent or casual status are not centrally held.
3. The figures shown are a headcount, i.e. part-time staff are counted with equal weight to full-time staff.
4. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.
5. Figures are individually rounded and may not sum precisely to the totals shown.
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