Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Ambrose HR Ltd., (b) Capita Group plc, (c) LA International, (d) Morson Human Resources Ltd., (e) Morson International, (f) Spire Business Support Ltd., (g) TMP (UK) Ltd. and (h) Veredus.
Answer
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) only has a static database of all of its contracts in the UK and overseas which was compiled in the latter part of 2008. Work is currently being undertaken to convert this to a real time database. To gather all of the contract information for 2008-09 would involve disproportionate cost so the following table reflects records kept by the two contracts teams in the FCO and FCO Services for 2008-09 which will cover a high proportion of the contracts awarded by the FCO in the UK during the period.
| Monetary value (£) | Comment | ||
| Ambrose HR Ltd. | Provision of consultancy services | 37,484.00 | Contract sum |
| Capita Group plc | Provision of contractors through OGC Catalist Framework | 215,930.00 | Spend figure |
| LA International | Provision of contractors through OGC Catalist Framework and FCO Services Framework | 3,344,102.99 | Spend figure |
| Morson Human Resources Ltd | See contract for Morson listed under Morson International below | — | — |
| Morson International | Provision of TWS staff | 7,674,726 | Contract sum |
| Spire Business Support Ltd. | Provision of consultancy services | 121,000.00 | Contract sum |
| Veredus | Provision of contractors through OGD Frameworks | 694,188.38 | Spend figure |