The Cabinet Office has spent £286,117 of taxpayer cash on consultants, advisers, and agencies to set up the government training school supposed to end reliance on external consultants. Classic…
Darren Jones announced the National School of Government and Public Services in January, with the government later boasting it would “move away from outsourced government training contracts”. Cabinet Office minister Mark Ferguson claims “Proportionate use of expert external organisations has been used to help establish the School.” Tory deputy leader Alex Burghart was handed the figures on the National School of Government:
KPMG’s current contract, worth up to £186 million, was provided without a tender because the work “could only be provided by KPMG at that time for technical reasons”. Guido has already reported on the clay modelling. The school now answers to First Secretary of State Louise Haigh. Does the school provide phones?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”