§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure showing the running costs of each regional office of his Department and the cost of running sub-regional offices aggregated by region and with Greater London shown separately and excluding the funding programmes operated by the offices for each year from 1987–88(a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices.
§ Mr. HowardThe costs of running each of my Department's regional offices are set out in the tables. None of these offices has a sub-regional office. Both tables exclude the separate local office networks of Property Holdings and PSAS and, before 1990–91, that of the PSA: 197W
£ million Region 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 (A) Costs of running each DOE regional office at current prices London 3.7 3.6 4.1 3.9 4.2 South East 2.7 2.4 3.0 2.9 3.3 Eastern 1.9 1.9 2.4 2.2 2.6 South West 1.9 1.7 2.1 2.1 2.5 East Midlands 2.5 2.4 3.1 2.9 3.3 West Midlands 3.1 2.8 3.5 3.4 4.0 North West 4.4 4.2 5.3 5.5 6.4 Yorkshire and Humberside 2.8 3.0 3.6 3.6 4.4 Northern 2.7 2.6 3.3 3.2 3.7 Merseyside Task Force 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.7 2.1 (B) Costs of running each DOE regional office at 1987–88 prices London 3.7 3.4 3.6 3.1 3.2 South East 2.7 2.3 2.6 2.4 2.5 Eastern 1.9 1.7 2.1 1.8 2.0 South West 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.7 1.9 East Midlands 2.5 2.3 2.7 2.4 2.5 West Midlands 3.1 2.6 3.0 2.7 3.0 North West 4.4 3.9 4.6 4.4 4.9 Yorkshire and Humberside 2.8 2.8 3.2 2.9 3.4 Northern 2.7 2.5 2.9 2.6 2.8 Merseyside Task Force 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.6