§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list, for 1997–98 and for each subsequent financial year, the amount spent(a) in the United Kingdom and (b) abroad by (i) her Department, (ii) its agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies on (1) providing mobile telephone equipment, including handsets and other associated equipment, (2) telephone calls made using such equipment and (3) telephone calls made using privately owned mobile telephones but subsequently reclaimed by (x) Ministers and (y) staff. [34398]
§ Dr. HowellsThis information cannot be provided save at disproportionate cost. My Department spent £500 on mobile telephone equipment in 2000–01 and £28,000 on mobile calls and line rental in the same period. Expenditure in previous years was at the same level.