Consultant-the butcher Mette spends millions on ... consultants

Prime minister Mette Frederiksen will slaughter the government's use of external consultants. But the socialist president and her party members have more than

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
06 December 2019 Friday 06:00
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Consultant-the butcher Mette spends millions on ... consultants

Prime minister Mette Frederiksen will slaughter the government's use of external consultants. But the socialist president and her party members have more than difficult to restrict their own use of consultants.

According to the latest accounts for the allocation of support for the socialist folketingsgruppe used the party last year voluptuous 5,34 million. dollars on consultancy and lawyers. A dramatic increase of 32 percent from 2017, which were used 4,03 million. crowns.

An explosive increase from 2016 - the year after Mette Frederiksen's accession as president - where the party's folketingsgruppe just spent 340.000 dollars, according to the Parliamentary gruppestøtteregnskaber.

the Increase in consulting services is seen here on the most recent financial statements of the gruppestøtten from 2018 - an increase of 25 per cent. since 2017, when there were used four million.

During the private use of the extra gruppestøttemidler, which Parliament gifted themselves with two years ago, is therefore to a large extent gone to the purchase of just consulting services.

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the News about The big consultant-the appetite comes at the same time with next year's budget, in which Mette Frederiksen & Co. dictates the savings on the government's use of consultants. Already next year the state must cut € 200 million. crowns on the post.

It is the first step in The plan to limit the government's use of external consultants with three billion. crowns, which instead should be spent on welfare.

the Liberal party finansordfører, Troels Lund Poulsen, watching The massive spending on consultancy, as an expression of double standards.

- Well, it shows very well the double standards, as is applicable. The policy, one even leads, stands in contrast to it, as you would like, that the state and the government must do. So it is just a tilståelsessag, he says.

the Liberal party folketingsgruppe used, according to the accounts no money on the consultant and a lawyer in 2018, but according to Troels Lund Poulsen, is it not an expression of an ideological selection.

- The overall explanation is that we draw on the employees we have, but the Left may also need to draw on consultants, he says.

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During the folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 5.343.386 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. There has been an increase in the party's spending on consultants at 32 % since 2017.

the Danish people's folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 243.823 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. There has been an increase in the party's spending on consultants by 14% since 2017.

the Liberal party folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 $ 0. on consultancy and legal advice. In 2017, they used 24.000 kr.

the Unity folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 814.058 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. There has been an increase in the party's spending on consultants at 103 % since 2017.

the Liberal Alliance folketingsgruppe used both in 2018 and in 2017 is $ 0. on consultancy and legal advice.

Alternativets folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 230.719 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. In 2017, spent $ 0.

Radical Liberal party folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 $ 0. on consultancy and legal advice. In 2017, they used 121.000 kr.

SF's folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 169.775 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. There has been an increase in the party's spending on consultants of 157 % since 2017.

The Conservative people's folketingsgruppe used in the 2018 99.414 kr. on consultancy and legal advice. In 2017, spent $ 0.

Source: financial statements of folketingsgruppestøtte for the year 2018

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It was a very critical Mette Frederiksen, who in the election campaign put up to other buns on the consultant-soup, when she was prime minister.

- Last year we used in Denmark around 11 billion. Now Hold fast: 11 billion on consultancy services in the public sector. 11 billion, thundered Mette Frederiksen at a press conference, before she continued:

And I will put a big question mark over whether it has benefited your daily lives as social care workers at all. And I would also question whether it benefits the older.

- I think we have come into a very boring development of our welfare society, which will be employed more and more people sitting behind a desk. More and more people are doing the 'new public management', which analyzes, implements, anchors and all the incredible fine words, said S-the president.

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S: the Level must be reduced ... to the state

To the question of how the desire for the state to save on consultants, linked with the party's own massive spending on consultancy, has Extra Magazine tried to get an interview with the Democratic chairman, Flemming Møller Mortensen.

He has, however, chosen to send a written answer through a press officer:

- We have never said that it should be prohibited to have expenses for consultants. But we believe that there must be room to reduce the level when we can see, that alone the state's annual expenses for consultants increased by 1.5 billion. the crowns in the last reign, and the public overall, using € 11 billion. dollars on consultants per year. For comparison, the political parties at Christiansborg palace in 2018 is used, what corresponds to the button 0,07 percent of the amount, says the group chairman.

- But actually amazes me that there is so much opposition to our proposal to save € 3 billion. dollars on consultancy costs, and instead spend the money on welfare. It should be the parties back us up in.

Flemming Møller Mortensen believes also that one can attribute to the dramatic increase of this budget line of the social democrats in particular very well:

- When it comes to the specific post in our gruppestøtteregnskab, gives also space for other elements than the type of consultancy costs, as your story is about. Therefore one must be careful to compare the cross-party, or for that matter compare one year with another.

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Criticism: the Consultants are doing not warm air

During the announcement about the savings on consultants in the public comes forward in the final spurt of the negotiations on next year's budget, and it arouses no enthusiasm at all locations.

Henriette Chapman is branchedirektør for DI Advisors. She notes that the government has not yet clarified which tasks and services that no longer will be a priority with the predicted savings.

- One should always evaluate how to use public tax dollars, and if policy want to cut out some of the public tasks, then it's an expression of a political priority.

- But it is not the case, that you buy the consultants to sit and make hot air. Consultants are typically someone who is inside and help the public to solve a wide variety of tasks. It can be anything from training for social and health care assistants, so that they will be better able to help the elderly out of their homes, to the evaluation of how one or another specific policy has helped the socially disadvantaged, she says.

Updated: 06.12.2019 06:00