Joint Export Promotion Directorate

HC Deb 30 March 1998 vol 309 c385W

Mr. Swinney

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list the(a) running costs and (b) salary costs in 1997–98 of the Joint Export Promotion Directorate. [362301

Mrs. Beckett

[holding answer 27 March 1998]: In 1997–98 the running costs and salary costs of the Joint Export Promotion Directorate (JEPD)—which is staffed by officials from my Department and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office—were £2,841,000 and £1,848,200 respectively.