Chair of parliamentary committee expresses ‘shock’ and announces investigation
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The bill for private consultants hired by the government to help combat the coronavirus pandemic has climbed to £175m, as the chair of an influential parliamentary committee revealed that MPs would investigate the multimillion pound use of management consultancies.
The government has bought consulting services from almost 90 different companies as it scrambled to fill gaps in the civil service’s pandemic response.
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