The Minns government will consider further moves to reduce the state’s reliance on consultants in next month’s Budget after analysis found they were being engaged at a rate of one every hour for five years under Coalition governments.
The analysis is in a government report that will be tabled in Parliament next week but was flagged on Tuesday by Finance minister Courtney Houssos as evidence that much of the outsourced work could have been done by the public service at a lower cost.
The report examines the last five years of the Berejiklian and Perrottet governments, finding 10,006 engagements with consultants. Their contracts grew from an average price of $75,180 in 2017-18 to $119,246 in 2021-22.
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