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NIO and Executive Agencies Financial Year 2008-09

Management

MacDonald Stephen Consultancy Ltd

£33,044

Deloitte

£57,554

KPMG

£22,000

Hays Healthcare Consultancy

£20,139

Kairos

£8,500

Social Research Centre Ltd

£10,315

Carter Goble Lee

£32,400

SRB Consultants

£4,469

PWC

£5,220

Others/Individual Contracts

£87,858

Cumulative total

£281,499

Financial

PWC

£60,853

BDP

£29,719

Deloitte

£11,260

Clarke Shipway

£8,721

Cumulative total

£110,553

Assurance

OCPA

£1,393

OGC

£13,600

Grant Thornton

£19,650

Key Forensic Services

£43,436

Others/Individual Contracts

£21,979

Cumulative total

£100,058

Research

Williamson Consulting

£1,884

Cumulative total

£1,884

Marketing

N/A

0

General Consultancy

PWC

£89,776

Fitzsimons Kinney Mallon Sols

£532

Hamilton Architects

£1,500

Grant Thornton

£19,815

DLA Piper

£37,519

Hays Construction & Property

£9,769

Others/Individual Contracts

£134,516

Cumulative total

£293,427

IT Consultancy

Deloitte

£20,000

Fluent Technology

£1,050

Fujitsu

£233,000

Lagan

£5,000

ICS

£40,000

Mott Macdonald

£212,137

Selex

£11,000

Biznet

£4,994

Cumulative total

£527,181

Total Expenditure 08/09

1,314,602

Phone Tapping: Members

Question

Asked by Lord Laird

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): I refer the noble Lord to the Answer given by the Prime Minister on 21 July 2009 (Official Report, House of Commons, col. 1166W).

Questions for Written Answer

Questions

Asked by Lord Jopling

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon): The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has introduced a range of new management and procedures to ensure it answers questions on time. For example, procedures now ensure that Questions, once ready for reply, are sent to Hansard immediately.

From Questions due for reply in June 2009 to December 2009, the proportion of Questions, cleared for response within 14 days, has been consecutively 83 per cent, 94 per cent, 58 per cent, 75 per cent, 88 per cent, 98 per cent, and 87 per cent.



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Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers and officials take very seriously their responsibility to reply to Parliamentary Questions on time.

Asked by Lord Jopling

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: The table below sets out information on the number of Questions for Written Answer tabled and answered within 14 days by department.

MayJuneJulyAugust
DepartmentTotalIn 14%TotalIn 14%TotalIn 14%TotalIn 14%

AGO

1

1

100

0

0

n/a

1

1

100

0

0

n/a

CLG

15

13

87

21

21

100

35

33

95

1

1

100

CO

25

9

36

24

14

58

32

22

69

1

0

0

DCMS

19

11

58

16

12

75

44

32

72

1

0

0

DECC

41

22

54

13

5

38

16

9

56

4

0

0

DEFRA

39

35

90

39

38

97

41

41

100

0

0

n/a

BIS

11

5

45

29

15

52

24

14

58

0

0

0

DCSF

31

23

74

25

17

68

23

14

61

0

0

n/a

DFID

23

20

87

12

I1

92

9

9

100

7

7

100

DFT

35

35

100

48

47

98

49

46

94

0

0

n/a

DOH

113

102

90

125

121

97

126

107

85

27

0

0

DWP

12

4

33

19

16

84

18

16

88

0

0

n/a

FCO

93

68

73

72

60

83

72

68

94

12

7

58

GEO

8

3

38

8

1

13

9

6

67

3

0

0

HMT*

39

26

67

43

30

70

66

64

97

0

0

n/a

HO

146

56

38

43

25

58

111

51

46

9

0

0

MOD

25

24

96

23

20

90

43

37

86

9

4

44

MOJ

43

39

91

33

31

94

62

61

98

13

7

54

NIO

52

31

60

28

17

61

58

55

95

3

0

0

SO

2

1

50

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

WO

1

1

100

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

DIUS

19

11

58

3

0

0

See BIS

See BIS

793

540

68%

624

501

80%

839

686

82%

90

26

29%

SeptemberOctoberNov (up to 18th)
DepartmentTotalIn l4%TotalIn 14%TotalIn 14%

AGO

0

0

n/a

5

5

100

1

0

0

CLG

7

2

29

15

7

47

17

13

77

CO

5

2

40

8

8

100

18

15

83

DCMS

3

1

33

16

7

44

7

7

100

DECC

4

0

0

45

31

69

2

1

50

DEFRA

7

7

100

16

15

94

42

40

95

BIS

I1

6

55

22

20

91

7

7

100

DCSF

3

0

0

17

17

100

16

15

94

DFID

4

4

100

4

3

80

5

4

80

DFT

10

7

70

56

56

100

11

11

100

DOH

16

15

94

35

28

80

36

36

100

DWP

6

4

66

13

2

15

20

13

65

FCO

8

6

75

25

23

88

80

78

98

GEO

0

0

n/a

4

4

100

7

7

100

HMT*

32

29

91

27

26

96

32

28

88

HO

4

0

0

17

15

88

62

54

87

MOD

13

7

54

19

15

80

50

40

80

MOJ

9

9

100

6

6

100

33

29

88

NIO

3

0

0

27

18

67

27

17

63

SO

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

WO

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

DIUS

See BIS

See BIS

See BIS

145

99

68%

377

306

81%

473

415

88%


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