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Government and consultants

The UK Government’s spending on “consultants” is huge and rising, reports The Register:

In the last three years, the amount of public money going to big firms like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has risen by a third to £2.8bn annually.

What’s most worrying is that, apparently, no one has any idea on what all this money has actually achieved! It’s just “consultancy”. Surely, if we’re spending nearly 3 billion pounds a year on something, we should be getting some fairly impressive and quantifiable benefits for it.

pax et bonum


Article posted at 12:42pm on 08 February 2007
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What a total waste of money. Criminal. Thanks for drawing this to my attention. The Gov really needs to be called to account for this.

Ruth ()
9:49pm on 08 February 2007

.... and I have now e-mailed my MP!

Ruth ()
10:08pm on 08 February 2007