The Government says that the use of consultants began to decrease in 2022. But the budgetary document published Monday October 10 does not allow “to end opacity”, as claimed by a report from the Senate.
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An avalanche of figures, a series of commitments and a point by point of the state strategy in its use of consulting firms. The government published its first “budgetary yellow” on the intervention of consultants in the public sphere on Monday October 10. But This 34-page document , annexed to the finance bill for 2023, is still far from transparency “Mission by mission” promised by the Minister of Public Transformation and Function, Stanislas Guerini, in July.
Unsurprisingly, the report confirms the “sprawling” nature of the phenomenon depicted by the Senate commission of inquiry in March. Thus, no less than 4,854 orders of “intellectual services” were funded by the state budget in 2021, for a total amount of 271 million euros, according to figures put forward by the government. And this, without even including IT consultancy expenses, valued at 198 million. This important invoice is, moreover, probably undervalued, since half less than that calculated by the Senate on the basis of the data provided by the State.
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A fall in trompe-l’oeil
After the McKinsey controversy, which had highlighted an appeal that has become almost systematic to consulting firms, the government undertook, in January, to reduce these expenses by around 15 % in A circular signed by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex. In the document, the one who succeeded him in Matignon, Elisabeth Borne, undertakes to verify “particularly” the monitoring of this objective in each ministry, where “piloting and supervision” devices of the appeal to consultants have been put in place, in recent months.
The government is addressed, in this terms, a first satisfaction, noting that the number of consulting missions commanded by the State fell by 10 % in the first half of 2022 compared to the previous year, with 2,321 Services billed for 118 million euros. It remains to be checked over time if this decline is the fruit of a better supervision of missions or simply the context: it was in 2021 that state council expenses culminated, which Emmanuel Macron justified , in March, by the exceptional nature of the health crisis. However, according to government projections, the total cost of strategic consulting expenditure will exceed, in 2022, its level before the health crisis, around 230 million euros.
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