§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the running costs in 2002 were of(a) her Ministers' private offices, separately identifying expenditure on staff, and (b) her Department. [106005]
§ Alun MichaelThe running cost of this Department's Secretariat, including Ministers' private offices, for the financial year 2001–02 (from June 2001 when the Defra was created) was £2,757,000, of which £1,907,000 was on pay. Running costs for 2002–03 are forecast to be in the region of £3,380,000 of which £2,340,000 will be on pay.
The actual 2001–02 administrative cost budget outturn for the whole Department was £643.9 million. The departmental running cost figure for 2002–03 will be published shortly in departmental appropriation and resource accounts.