File Stores

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost was of operating his Department's filestores in each year since 1997. [98845]

The information requested is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table. Because the availability of data is not uniform across the period, the figures are non-comparable.

£
Year	Operating costs
1997–98	21,078,728
1998–99	21,142,259
1999–2000	21,783,791
2000–01	27,714,146
2001–02	28,470,915

Notes:

1. Operating costs shown include staff salaries and estates costs but not running costs such as those for utilities.

2. Where filestores are operated by external contractors then contract costs have been used.

3. Most smaller DWP filestores are managed within DWP core business and separate operating costs for these stores are therefore not available prior to the current review of records storage and retrieval.

4. 1997–98 figures include staff data from 13 stores and estates data from 60 stores.

5. 1998–99 figures include staff data from 14 stores and estates data from 60 stores.

6. 1999–2000 figures include staff data from 20 stores and estates data from 60 stores.

7. 2000–01 figures include staff data from 44 stores and estates data from 60 stores.

8. 2001–02 figures include data from 62 stores.

Volume 400: debated on Tuesday 4 March 2003