Nottingham City Council has approved spending more than £600,000 on PricewaterhouseCoopers
More than £1m will have been spent on a single consultancy firm to help Nottingham City Council draw up and deliver a financial improvement plan. The Labour-run authority has approved spending more than £600,000 on PricewaterhouseCoopers .
Just over £44,000 of the total will be spent on PwC’s expenses. It comes just days after the Local Democracy Reporting Service received a response to a Freedom of Information request, which revealed the council has so far spent £5.5m on external consultants.The council had spent this sum in the years since the Government appointed an improvement board in 2020, to oversee the authority’s recovery following the collapse of Robin Hood Energy.
“Phase 2B provides support to the council in rolling out and implementing the agreed solutions.” Council leader, Cllr David Mellen , previously said some of the spending is on short-term, essential support which will improve the authority in the long-term and so provide value for money. PwC is is considered one of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms alongside KPMG, Deloitte and EY. It has been working as the council’s ‘strategic delivery partner’, a role which ensures the delivery of savings included in its four-year financial plan and its Together for Nottingham improvement plan.
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