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Location —Hull, Immingham, Humber Sea Terminal, Grimsby, Tyne Commission Quay and Teesport
	2005	2006	2007	2008
January	—	—	3	8
February	—	—	10	4
March	—	5	9	—
April	—	14	—	4
May	—	8	—	7
June	—	6	23	12
July	—	4	8	12
August	—	1		8
September	—	1	9	9
October	—	1	2	6
November	—	17	—	—
December	—	—	—	4
Total	81	57	64	74

Location—Purfleet and Tilbury
	2005	2006	2007	2008
January	—	—	—	38
February	—	—	4	13
March	—	—	7	10
April	—	—	9	9
May	—	—	12	7
June	—	—	3	13
July	—	1	10	24
August	—	—	2	16
September	—	9	7	22
October	—	16	—	7
November	—	2	16	14
December	—	2	—	11
Total	—	30	70	184

Location—Newhaven, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Poole
	2005	2006	2007	2008
January	—	15	29	24
February	—	42	18	10
March	—	9	12	5
April	—	8	7	10
May	—	15	27	9
June	—	14	44	14
July	—	10	21	17
August	—	44	24	8
September	—	19	31	19
October	—	17	20	14
November	—	20	44	20
December	—	20	18	4
Total	163	233	295	154

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All the data provided above have been compiled from locally held management information and as such do not represent National Statistics. They may therefore be subject to change.

National Police Improvement Agency: Consultants

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on consultants by the National Policing Improvement Agency in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by (a) project and (b) contractor. [254822]

Jacqui Smith: The total National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) consultancy spend for the 2007-08 financial year was £71.4 million. This spend is made up of £66.5 million which was recorded in the Income and Expenditure accounts, along with £4.9 million of capitalised spend, which was included in the fixed asset additions for the year.

The main consultancy services purchased by the NPIA are:

specialised technical resources needed in the design and build of technology projects, for use by the police service,

project and programme management skills,

specific expert advice and guidance, where the NPIA does not retain the required skills or knowledge.

We do not hold this information in the format requested, but are able to provide the following without incurring disproportionate cost.

Table 1 shows consultancy spend on key projects within the NPIA during 2007-08.

Table 2 shows the cost of the 20 largest suppliers of consultancy resource to the NPIA during this period.

Table 1: NPIA consultancy spend on NPIA key projects during 2007-08
	£ million
Custody and Case	19.4
IMPACT	12.5
Livescan	9.2
Airwave	4.5
Schengen Information System II	3.4
PentiP	1.7

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Table 2: Top 20 suppliers of consultancy resource to NPIA during 2007-08
	£ million
Metropolitan police authority(1)	10.4
Northrop Grumman Commercial Sys	8.7
Capgemini UK Plc	7.0
SunGard Public Sector Ltd.	5.5
PA Consulting Group	2.4
Rullion Computer Personnel Ltd.	2.0
Cable and Wireless Communications	1.6
Accenture	1.3
Imperial College London	1.2
LA International Consultants	1.2
Generic Software Consultants Ltd.	1.2
Northgate SIS Ltd. (Anite)	1.1
Northgate Information Solutions UK	0.8
Hudson Global Resources	0.8
Parity Solutions Ltd.	0.7
Amtec Consulting plc	0.6
Spring Technology Staffing Services	0.6
Arqiva	0.5
Parity Resources	0.5
QinetiQ	0.5
(1) The Metropolitan Police Authority is shown as a supplier as it is recharging some of its own costs incurred for work on NPIA projects

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