Departmental Expenditure Limit

HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 cc202-3W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much and what proportion of the departmental expenditure limit for 2002–03 will be accounted for by staff costs; what the figures were for 2001–02; and if she will make a statement. [61026]

Ms Hewitt

Pay negotiations for 2002–03 have not yet been finalised. Therefore, planned pay costs as a proportion of total planned expenditure is not yet available.

The total resources of the Department for 2001–02 are shown in Table 1 of The Government's Expenditure Plans (Cm 5416), and the Department's admin expenditure is detailed in Table 5 of the same publication.