The Court of Auditors castigates the usage of consulting companies | EUROtoday

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The president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga (at the center), and the Minister of Industry and Energy, Marc Ferracci (right), in Launaguet (Haute-Garonne), November 18, 2024.

Three years in the past, they handed between the drops. The overwhelming report that the Senate made public, in March 2022, on the“Explosion of advice services” Under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron didn’t cope with native communities. The senators had thought of that the phenomenon was not “Not as significant” at residence that inside the State, that the quantities involved have been “Weaker” And that the exercise of communities was already very managed. Not to say the absence of “Sufficiently precise data”.

The Court of Auditors has simply remedied it on this final level. In response to a proposal formulated on-line by a citizen, the monetary court docket revealed, Tuesday, June 10, a report on the attraction by native authorities to consulting companies. It follows from the management carried out inside 16 of them (areas, metropolises, departments, municipalities), distributed in 4 areas (Occitanie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Polynesie française) representing a complete of 10 million inhabitants.

Advice companies represent a “Relatively modest share of their expenses” : round 1 %. However, it’s way more than the State (0.25 % three years in the past). For the 15 metropolitan communities managed, this represents 195 million euros between 2019 and 2023. “Large -scale investment projects”the Metropolis of Toulouse spent 38.3 million euros, the Occitanie 34.4 million area, the town of Marseille 28.3 million…

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