Ministers spend extra £160m on Brexit consultant contracts
The government has signed a round of new Brexit contracts with outside consultants worth almost £160m.
Since the EU referendum, Whitehall has hired companies to carry out consultancy work to prepare for Brexit.In February, an analysis for the BBC found the government had agreed contracts worth £104m for outside help on Brexit.At the time, Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the professional association for civil servants, called the sum"eye watering".
Nine companies that were awarded contracts last year - including Deloitte and Ernst & Young - have had those extended by a year.Redacted documents published by the government state they're being paid between £3m and £6m each for IT, accounting and auditing work and management services, all related to Brexit.
"What they have brought to the government at this unprecedented period of huge workload is capacity, insight and skills.
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