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The National Audit Office:

The report, meanwhile, warned: "When used incorrectly, consultants can
drain budgets very quickly, with little or no productive results."

2 responses

  1. I suspect that this is the sole purpose of employing consultants. If a government department does not want change what better way of stopping it than by employing consultants and saying look how much money we are “investing”.

  2. Yes – and the additional benefit is that manifestly unpopular decisions can be blamed on the consultants instead of ministers.

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