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Mr. Flight
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what his Department's (a) total managed expenditure (b) total spending on information technology and (c) spending on information technology as a proportion of its total managed expenditure was in each financial year since 1978–98. [107185]
Mrs. McGuire
The Scotland Office was established on 1 July 1999. The figures for total departmental expenditure and spending on information technology are as follows:
| 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | |
| Total expenditure1 (£000) | 3,836 | 6,271 | 6,469 |
| IT expenditure (£000) | 89 | 58 | 50 |
| IT expenditure (as percentage) | 2.32 | 0.92 | 0.77 |
| 1 Excluding the grants paid to the Scottish Executive and the Boundary Commission for Scotland. | |||