HC Deb 19 September 2003 vol 410 cc1186-7W
Mr. Flight

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was to her Department of mobile phones supplied to Ministers and officials in each year since 1997. [123150]

Margaret Beckett

The cost to my Department of mobile phones supplied to Ministers and officials since 8 June 2001 (when Defra was formed) were as follows:

£
Year end 31 March Secretariat Defra
2001–021 13,311 2,517,693
2002–03 13,895 625,467
2003–042 1,537 115,018

1Part year

2To 31 July 2003

The Defra mobile phone expenditure includes £1,970,611 in 2002 and £148,098 incurred in respect of Foot and Mouth Disease.