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Mr. Win Griffiths
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what the administrative costs were of the Scotland Office as a percentage of total spending since 1999. [103809]
Mrs. McGuire
The information is provided in the following table:
| Net admin costs (£000) | Total SO net resource (£000) | Column 1 as a pecentage of column 2 | |
| 1999–20001 | 3,743 | 13,409,565 | 0.03 |
| 2000–01 | 6,563 | 14,103,787 | 0.05 |
| 2001–02 | 6,598 | 14,996.479 | 0.04 |
| 2002–03(estimated) | 6,807 | 17,992,739 | 0.04 |
| 11 July 1999 to 31 March 2000: the Scotland Office was established on 1 July 1999. | |||