Wilton Park Executive Agency

HC Deb 20 July 2001 vol 372 cc489-90W

Mr. Blizzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how the Wilton Park Executive Agency performed against the targets agreed for 2000–01; and what the agreed targets for the current year are. [6451]

Mr. MacShane

Wilton Park met all four of the agreed targets set for the 2000–01 financial year, for income, cost recovery, the number of conference participants, and cost per head to the FCO overall. Wilton Park's performance in 2000–01 and targets for the current year are shown.

	Income(£)	Cost recovery(%)	Number of conference participants	Cost to FCO per participant(£)
2000–01
Targets	2,500,000	82.3	2,400	224
Performance	2,870,000	87.4	3,093	134
2001–02
Targets	2,963,000	86.0	2,400	203

The number of conference participants in 2000–01 was significantly higher than in previous years. This has had a significant impact on the cost-per-participant figure.