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Hospitality

Volume 400: debated on Monday 3 March 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her Department's hospitality budget (a) is in 2002–03 and (b) was in each of the last three years; and how much was left unspent at the end of each financial year. [99585]

The hospitably budgets for financial years 1999–2003 are laid out in the following table, together with the expenditure incurred on hospitality in financial years 1999–2002.It should be noted, however, that from 2001–02 onwards the hospitality budgets were subsumed into a larger budget which included conferences and committees, as part of the Department's move to a delegated budgeting system. It is now for Directors to decide how much they would spend on each element, and consequently it is not possible to state a figure for the hospitality element of the aggregated budget and any underspend against that budget element, although it is still possible to identify the expenditure incurred on hospitality.

YearBudgetExpenditureUnderspend/(overspend)
1999–200051,94132,53319,408
2000–0133,19050,891(17,701)
2001–0228,657
2002–03