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Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contracts and with what value the Government have placed with the Laboratory of the Government Chemist in each year since 1992. [31047]
Mr. Straw
554 contracts with a total value of £2,534,976 have been placed by the Home Office and its agencies with the Laboratory of the Government Chemist since 1992, as follows:
| Calendar | Number of contracts | Total value £ |
| 1992 | 58 | 5,295 |
| 1993 | 78 | 4,796 |
| 1994 | 120 | 5,080 |
| 1995 | 116 | 5,759 |
| 1996 | 92 | 1,507,939 |
| 1997 | 90 | 1,006,107 |