One of the world's biggest
consultancies has agreed not to bid for central Government contracts for
six months following a furious row with Theresa May over a Brexit memo.
Last month a consultant working for Deloitte claimed in a two-page memo that civil servants were struggling to cope with more than 500 Brexit-related projects amid Cabinet splits.
The memo prompted a withering response from Downing Street, which dismissed the memo as "unsolicited" and accused Deloitte of "touting for business".
Deloitte last night issued a statement saying that it had put forward "a plan for working with central Government to put this matter behind us".
It said: "Deloitte regrets the publication of the two-page note, and has apologised for the unintended disruption it caused the Government. The note was intended for internal audiences and was not a Deloitte point of view."
Downing Street declined to comment on the arrangement with Deloitte.
At the time the memo was leaked, former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said the consultancy should be stripped of Government contracts, while other Eurosceptic Conservative MPs suggested the document had been released in an attempt by Remain campaigners to frustrate Brexit.
Note EU-Digest: The Deloitte Memo also shows that Britain's government is ill prepareed to cope with BREXIT's article 50
Read more: Deloitte agrees not to bid for Government contracts after leaked Brexit memo row
Last month a consultant working for Deloitte claimed in a two-page memo that civil servants were struggling to cope with more than 500 Brexit-related projects amid Cabinet splits.
The memo prompted a withering response from Downing Street, which dismissed the memo as "unsolicited" and accused Deloitte of "touting for business".
Deloitte last night issued a statement saying that it had put forward "a plan for working with central Government to put this matter behind us".
It said: "Deloitte regrets the publication of the two-page note, and has apologised for the unintended disruption it caused the Government. The note was intended for internal audiences and was not a Deloitte point of view."
Downing Street declined to comment on the arrangement with Deloitte.
At the time the memo was leaked, former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said the consultancy should be stripped of Government contracts, while other Eurosceptic Conservative MPs suggested the document had been released in an attempt by Remain campaigners to frustrate Brexit.
Note EU-Digest: The Deloitte Memo also shows that Britain's government is ill prepareed to cope with BREXIT's article 50
Read more: Deloitte agrees not to bid for Government contracts after leaked Brexit memo row
