Labour says that education secretary Michael Gove’s Department for Education has spent hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on consultants and marketing, while the country suffers a huge shortage in primary school places.
It claims that the department has admitted to breaking Treasury rules on spending on consultants, marketing, ICT and recruitment.
Labour says that the DfE has wasted £1 billon on mismanaging the academies programme, which has been highlighted in a National Audit Office report.
The amount the department pays for consultants and contractors has increased by £350,000 since April this year, figures derived from DfE data. Of this, the amount spent on consultants has risen by £4,000 to more than £106,000 in June 2013.
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