§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the running costs were of(a) his Ministers' private offices, separately identifying expenditure on staff and (b) his Department in each year from May 1997 to the nearest date for which the information is available. [40985]
§ Ms BlearsInformation is available for the financial years 1997–98 to 2000–01. The running costs for Ministers' private offices and the Department for each of these years is shown in the table.
(a) Ministers' Private Offices £ thousands Total Staff Non staff 1997–98 1,849 1,385 464 1998–99 2,144 1,564 580 1999–2000 2,653 1,983 670 2000–01 2,947 2,323 624
(b) Departmental administration expenditure (including agencies) £ million 1997–98 249 1998–99 257 1999–2000 273 2000–01 300