HC Deb 07 July 2000 vol 353 cc313-4W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money his Department has spent in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available on(a) Lords Lieutenant and (b) their deputies in Wales. [129680]

Mr. Paul Murphy

My Department holds information on Lords Lieutenant's expenditure for the financial years 1996–97 onwards. The total expenditure for each of these years is as follows:

£
Expenditure
1996–97 20,277.19
1997–98 21,120.85
1998–99 18,500.45
1999–2000 119,566.55
2000–01 24,539.00
1This figure includes payments made by the Welsh Office to 30 June and by the Wales Office from 1 July.
2To date.

Information on expenditure prior to 1996 could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.