To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his estimate of the cost of running his departmental office, and that of his predecessor, for each year since 1990–91 including the current year, broken down into (a) telephone bills, (b) total staff costs, (c) press and communications, (d) entertainment, (e) alcoholic drinks, (f) non-alcoholic drinks, (g) stationery, (h) office refurbishment and (i) other. [6383]

The available information is shown in the table:

Financial year1	Total staff cost £	Hospitality 2 £
1992–93	1,083,758	31,164
1993–94	1,387,955	31,814
1994–95	1,525,940	22,567
1995–963	1,525,074	17,787

Expenditure on the other items is not collected in the format requested but is included in the running cost expenditure of my Department, which is published in the Departmental report.