Consultants fees spend for years 2019, 2020 and 2021: FOI release
- Published
- 3 May 2022
- Directorate
- Financial Management Directorate
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202200283131
- Date received
- 23 February 2022
- Date responded
- 23 March 2022
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The amount of money the Scottish Government spent on consultants fees for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Response
'Consultants fees’ is an unspecific term so for the purposes of answering your request we’ve calculated the total expenditure identified as relating to ‘Consultancy Services’ in the Scottish Government accounting system.
The table below summarises the total value of the invoices held on our financial reporting system for consultancy services expenditure by the core Scottish Government. This is broken down by the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21 and the current 2021-22 financial year up to and including 28/02/2022:
|
£'s (expenditure by financial year) |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
2021-22 (to 28/02/2022) |
Total |
|
Consultancy Services |
6,104,673 |
3,918,252 |
4,139,833 |
14,162,758 |
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
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