§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what the running costs were of(a) her Ministers' private offices, separately identifying expenditure on staff, and (b) her Department in each year from May 1997 to the nearest date for which the information is available. [40977]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe Scotland Office was established in its present form on 1 July 1999.
In the period 1 July 1999 to 31 March 2000, an incomplete year as it was the first for the Department, were £3.6 million, of which £2.0 million were staff costs. The running costs in 2000–01 were £5.7 million, of which £3.6 million were staff costs.