FOI request (FOIR-720398984)

External consultants

Requested Wed 04 June 2025
Responded Mon 07 July 2025

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to request the following information from your organisation:

For each of the last five financial years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25), how much money was spent by the local authority on external consultants?

Please could you break the data down into a total amount and separated by year?

---

Response

2020-21 - £634,664.40

2021-22 - £601,603.64

2022-23 - £874,380.72

2023-24 - £691,084.36

2024-25 - £803,434.93