§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the running costs were of(a) his Ministers' private offices, separately identifying expenditure on staff, and (b) his Department in each year from May 1997 to the nearest date for which the information is available. [40983]
§ Dr. John ReidFor the 1997–98 financial year, no breakdown is available from May, therefore the total is for the whole year. For the 2001–02 financial year—the total spend is not yet available, therefore the figure is an estimate based on spend to date.
Details of the Department's (including it's agencies, but excluding NDPBs as we do not have access to a breakdown of their expenditure) total expenditure on:
£ (a) Ministers Staff 1997–98 3,218,755 1— 1998–99 2,109,653 1,317,114 1999–2000 1,810,886 1,319,753 2000–01 1,897,659 1,209,805 2001–02 1,163,7502 21,186,332 1 Total—including staff 2 Est
(b) The Northern Ireland Office Year £ 1997–98 1,012,450,000 1998–99 985,989,705 1999–2000 1,044,332,169 2000–01 1,199,617,636 2001–02 1,120,667,473 1 Est