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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Mckinsey and Company

Asked by Joe RobertsonConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 13 February 2025UIN 27787

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on consultancy work undertaken by McKinsey and Company as part of its Arm’s Length Body Transformation Programme; and if he will publish the (a) reports and (b) recommendations made by McKinsey and Company on that work.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

This information is in the public domain and can be accessed through here.

The cost towards “ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY WORK” for McKinsey was £403,385.

Defra does not plan to publish the McKinsey report and its recommendations, as it relates to work under the previous Government.

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