HC Deb 27 March 1991 vol 188 c465W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a table of expenditure showing the cost of running each regional office of his Department and the cost of running sub-regional offices aggregated by region and with London shown separately, for 1989–90 and excluding the funding programmes operated by the offices.

Mr. Jackson

[holding answer 25 March 1991]: The information is as follows:

Financial year 1989–90
Outturn
Region Regional office Area office Total
£'000s £'000s £'000s
South East 2,985 9,548 12,534
London 4,586 9,558 14,144
South West 1,816 5,919 7,735
West Midlands 3,450 7,624 11,074
East Midlands 2,251 7,680 9,931
Yorkshire and Humberside 2,959 6,759 9,719
North West 2,866 11,671 14,537
Northern 2,322 5,859 8,181
Wales 1,975 5,306 7,282
Scotland 3,876 8,469 12,345
TOTAL 29,087 78,393 107,480

Note: All figures are £'000s and show the cost of former Training Agency offices.