Political Roundup: Time for a big debate about Govt use of business consultants

Much of this was spent on the “Big Four” management consultants: Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst and Young (EY) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). So, although many of Labour’s reform proposals have failed, they have been a real winner for the business consultants employed on them. And what does it mean for our political system to be so strongly dominated by private sector management consultants? The “bonfire of policy” occurring at the moment is a good time to examine the dominance of business consultants in government. Some say the public service has become bloated, and others that it has been hollowed-out by the entry of management consultants.