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Department for Business and Trade: Consultants

Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 15515, tabled on 21 November 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.

Answered on

29 November 2024

The Department for Business and Trade is a newly formed Department established in February 2023. The new department absorbed the functions of the former Department for International Trade (DIT) and some of the functions of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The amount spent on consultancy by both departments are as follows:

Year

DIT

BEIS

2021

£5,782

£636,000

2022

£380,000

£587,000

2023

£865,000

£649,000

The Department publishes its annual expenditure on consultancy in its Annual Report and Accounts.