To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list events at which her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible have exhibited in each of the last three years, stating for each (a) the purpose of exhibiting, (b) the cost of exhibiting and (c) the number of staff attending for the exhibition. [107627]

Information on exhibitions funded from centrally-held budgets has been as follows:

	Information
2000–01
TUC exhibition	(a)Promote awareness of DTI's main Employment Relations messages (b) £30,000
CBI exhibition	(a)Promote awareness of DTI's key messages to business (b) £33,000
2001–02
TUC exhibition	(a) Promote awareness of DTI's main Employment Relations messages (b) £32,000
CBI exhibition	(a) Promote awareness of DTI's key messages to business (b)£26,000
2002–03
TUC exhibition	(a) Promote awareness of DTI's main Employment Relations messages, and other key DTI priority areas (b) £29,000
CBI exhibition	(a) Promote awareness of DTI's key messages to business (b)£34,000

Information on other locally-funded exhibitions is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.I have asked the chief executive of each departmental agency to write to the hon. Member.As regards NDP Bs, this information is not held centrally and could be produced only at disproportionate cost.Copies of the agency letters have been placed in the Library.