Spend on consultancy services for the Northern Ireland Office in each of the last five years is shown below.<\/p>
2021-22<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2020-21<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2019-20<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2018-19<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2017-18<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> £901,663<\/p><\/td> £1,017,816<\/p><\/td> £ 1,544,240<\/p><\/td> £1,432,132<\/p><\/td> £858,431<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm\u2019s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1487857/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Northern Ireland Office spent the following on consultancy fees:<\/p> (a) 2020:<\/strong> £745,278<\/p> (b) 2021:<\/strong> £787,452<\/p> (c) January-May 2022:<\/strong> £794,190<\/p> In relation to naming consultancies, in accordance with this Government\u2019s transparency requirements, I have listed only those suppliers with payments of £25,000 or above, as to name others could potentially breach their data protection rights or have an adverse effect on their commercial activity:<\/p> Active Communities Network LTD<\/p> AV Browne Advertising LTD<\/p> Cabinet Office<\/p> Cinemagic LTD<\/p> Co-Operation Ireland<\/p> Department of Finance<\/p> Education Authority<\/p> Epam Systems LTD<\/p> Government Estates Management<\/p> Groundwork Northern Ireland<\/p> Holywell Trust<\/p> Ipsos Mori<\/p> Ministry of Defence<\/p> Ministry of Justice<\/p> North West Cultural Partnership<\/p> Passionist Peace & Reconciliation Office<\/p> Playhouse the NW Play Resource Centre<\/p> Youth Action NI<\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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