“The following Information regarding the use of consultants by the council (ie. anyone taken in from an outside body to advice the authority on any matter).
A) The number of consultants used by the council in
1) 2018
2) 2017
3)2016
B) The cost to the council of the use of consultants in
1) 2018
2) 2017
3) 2016
C) A breakdown by project and hours worked of the number of consultants used by the council in
1) 2018
2) 2017
3) 2016
The Council operates its financial year from April until March and all reporting and monitoring is recorded in that period therefore the data provided below has been reported:-
April 2018 – December 2018
April 2017 – March 2018
April 2016 – March 2017
Please note that we also report in days rather than hours although the monitoring sheet for 2017/18 and 2018/19 does not capture this information, so this information is not held for these years.
| Year | 2018/19 to 31/12/218 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 | |||||||||
| Item |
Number of consultants
|
Cost of Consultants | Number of Projects | Number of Days Worked |
Number of consultants
|
Cost of Consultants | Number of Projects | Number of Days Worked |
Number of consultants
|
Cost of Consultants | Number of Projects | Number of Days Worked |
| ANSWER | 14 | £439,929 | 15 | Information not held | 14 | £507,934 | 14 | Information not held | 23 | £668,211 | 23 | 1313 |