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Mr. Flight
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the running costs have been of Ministers' private offices in his Department in each year since 1997. [123105]
Mr. Straw
The cost in cash terms of running the Ministerial Private Offices (Five prior to FY 2001–02 and six since) are laid out in the following table:
| Financial year | Costs (£) |
| 1997–98 | 1,920,246 |
| 1998–99 | 1,791,783 |
| 1999–2000 | 2,360,535 |
| 2000–01 | 2,341,747 |
| 2001–02 | 2,268,543 |
| 2002–03 | 2,333,481 |
| 2003–04 | 1438,096 |
| 1 As of 7 July | |