§ Mr. BreedTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) how much money was allocated to the Countryside Agency last year; and how much of this money was spent on(a) transport, (b) community development, (c) planning, (d) social exclusion, (e) economic regeneration and enterprise, (f) access and (g) special areas; [139064]
(2) and the Regions how much of the money allocated to the Countryside Agency for use on rural transport schemes has been spent; [139031]
(3) what proportion of the total budget for the Countryside Agency went to each of its regional offices in the last financial year; [139033]
(4) what the staff costs were of the Countryside Agency in the last financial year. [139032]
§ Mr. MullinThe Countryside Agency was allocated £48.735 million last financial year(1999–2000). Programme expenditure was as follows:
£million (a) Transport 3.579 (b) Community development 5.051 (c) Planning 0.341 (d) Social exclusion 0.263 (e) Economic regeneration and enterprise 0.471 (f) Access 4.692 (g) Special areas 3.758 A further £1.336 million has been spent on rural transport schemes this year, with £2.26 million spent in 1998–99 by the former Rural Development Commission.
The staff costs for the Agency in the last financial year totalled £9.871 million. 116W Of the total budget allocated to regions in the last financial year, expenditure per region in percentage terms was as follows:
Percentage North East 12 North West 13 Yorkshire and the Humber 12 East Midlands 8 West Midlands 10 East of England 11 South East and London 18 South West 16