HC Deb 17 September 2004 vol 424 c1924W
Sue Doughty

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much her Department and its agencies spent on water and sewerage services in each year from 1997. [188160]

Alun Michael

The Department for Environment. Food and Rural Affairs was created on 8 June 2001. Expenditure on water and sewerage services in buildings for which Defra and its agencies have a contractual responsibility was:

£
2001–02 543,004
2002–03 546,333
2003–04 508,339