Departmental Running Costs

HC Deb 21 January 2003 vol 398 cc225-6W

Mr. Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the running costs of(a) the Department and (b) each of its sponsored agencies were in (i) 1997 and (ii)the most recent year for which figures are available. [90712]

Mr. Rammell

Detailed information on administration costs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its agency going back to 1998–99 and with projections to 2003–04, is set out in Table 2 of the 2002 departmental report (Cm 5413). Data for years before 1998–99 are not available on the same basis. Provisional outturn for gross and net administration costs limits were published in Public Expenditure 2001–02 Provisional Outturn (Cm 5574), Tables 4 and 5. Updated information, with plans to 2005–06, will be published in the 2003 departmental report in the spring.