THE Assembly Government came under fire yesterday for spending £11.2m on external consultants.
It was revealed yesterday that in 2008-09 alone nearly £10m was spent on management consultancy services.
The disclosure came a day after the Auditor General estimated that the public sector in Wales will see budgets cut by £1.5bn over three years from April 2011. Last week it was discovered that the Assembly Government spent £3.8m on external legal advice in 2008-09.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
More dosh disappears down the devolved drain
Management Consultants - stealing the WAG's watch in order to tell it the time...and charging the UK taxpayer 10 million for the priviledge:
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Do you think the whitehall departments don't do exactly the same?
Quite possibly...but that doesn't make it right for the devolved administrations to follow suit does it?
Neither does it make it a product of devolution as your headline claims - it is a product of how government is done at every level.
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