Questions 29-30 (Mr Bacon): Payments to PA Consulting

In response to questions 29 and 30 from Richard Bacon, we agreed to let you have details of the payments made to PA Consulting. PA were appointed in February 2000 to provide pre-contract support to the CRB procurement project. As Bernard Herdan indicated, they were paid at normal consulting rates. These varied between £700 and £1,700 per day depending on the seniority of the individual consultants concerned. Over the period from February to August 2000 (when the contract with Capita was signed) PA were paid £311,175 excluding VAT.