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Mr. Flight
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the running costs have been of Ministers' private offices in her Department in each year since 1997. [123098]
Ms Hewitt
The running costs of Ministers' private offices in each year since 1997 is as follows:
| £ million | |
| 1997–98 | 3.8 |
| 1998–99 | 4.2 |
| 1999–2000 | 3.4 |
| 2000–01 | 3.6 |
| 2001–02 | 4.08 |