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<p>The approval of consultancy and professional services spend of over £500k or 9
months duration by Cabinet Office is subject to central government spending control
since October 2021. Prior to this, approval of consultancy and professional services
spending of up to £10m was delegated to departments and other central government bodies.
As a result, the data requested is not available.</p><p>The approval of contingent
labour spend for engagements with day rates of £1,000 or over, excluding recoverable
VAT and (b) durations of 18 months or over by Cabinet Office is subject to central
government spend control since November 2021. Prior to this, spend decisions were
fully delegated to departments and therefore no central dataset was collected on this
specific spend.</p><p> </p>
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