Departmental Administration Costs

HC Deb 22 July 2004 vol 424 cc653-4W

Mr. Letwin

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the total administration costs were in his Department in financial years(a) 1996–97 and (b) 1997–98.[186078]

Mr. McNulty

Details of gross running costs for 1996–97 and 1997–98 for the former Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions are contained in Table 5.5 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2000–01 (Cm 4601). These figures are on a cash basis. From Public Expenditure Analyses 2001–02 (Cm 5101), Departments' administrative expenditure was reported on a resource basis, as administration costs.