HC Deb 29 November 1994 vol 250 cc639-40W
Mr. Key

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much money his Department will spend this year on statistics and research.

Mr. Oppenheim

The running costs and programme expenditure of statistical services division and economics, research and evaluation division in Employment Department headquarters amount to £23.8 million in 1994–95.

Not all this total relates to the collection of information or pure research. A significant proportion of the work of the divisions concerned involved the provision of statistical and economic advice and also evaluation.