Management consultants have hit back at a damning government report that said departments were wasting millions of pounds buying their services. The report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee said that if Whitehall had a tighter grip on the use of consultants, it could save more than £500m a year. Many departments had no idea whether consultants provided value for money, and regularly turned to external help rather than assessing whether in-house staff had appropriate skills, the committee said. But the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), which represents many large consultancies, said it required a huge leap of faith to conclude that the public sector was not getting full value from their work. Peter Hill, MCA chief executive, said: "Lack of control procedures across government does not prove that consultants deliver poor value for money. There is not a single example in the report that provides evidence that lack of such procedures resulted in consultants...

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