§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what methods of depreciation his Department will apply in the current financial year to fixed assets in the preparation of departmental resource accounting balance sheets. [97047]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe Department will apply, in the current financial year, the same method of depreciation as that applied in the 1998–99 financial year dry run resource accounts which is the straight line method. The method applied is commonly used in the private sector.