Question follow-through · 47822
Government Departments: Consultants
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32970 on Government Departments: Consultants, if she will list the outturn figures for the spending on consultancy in each of the financial years from 2017-18 to 20
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 2 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32970 on Government Departments: Consultants, if she will list the outturn figures for the spending on consultancy in each of the financial years from 2017-18 to 20
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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2 May 2025
Answer published
Outturn figures for consultancy spending from the government’s Online System for Central Accounting and Reporting II (OSCAR II) are contained within datasets that are published as part of the OSCAR Annual Release. For financial years 2019-20 to 2022-23, t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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