§ Baroness Jegerasked Her Majesty's Government:
(a) what is the current annual cost in real terms of the "Think Tank"; (b) what was the comparable cost in its first year; (c) on how many subjects has it reported and (d) in how many cases has action been taken on its reports.
§ The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Young)The estimated annual cost at current prices of the present staff of the CPRS (at 1st October 1982) is £1,091,000. Comparable estimated cost on the same price basis for the first full year of the CPRS (1972) was £752,000. The CPRS produces advice to Ministers in a variety of formats varying from full-scale reports to written and oral contributions to ministerial (and official) discussions. It is therefore not possible to give figures for the number of subjects on which it has reported or the decisions reached following its advice.