Question follow-through · 15514
Department for Transport: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The table shows the total departmental spend on consultancy for financial years 2020/2021 to 2023/2024. The total includes the central department (DfTc), Executive Agencies and Arm Length Bodies (ALBs). Departmental total spend (£)2020/21 175,720,8402021/...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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