To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list (a) the title and subject, (b) the total cost to his Department and (c) the commissioned author or organisation of each external report commissioned by his Department and its predecessor in each year since 1997. [103727]

My Department was created in July 1999.It has commissioned one external report—a review of its staffing levels, which was carried out by Inbucon in 2001–02 at a cost of £19,000.