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Mr. Flight
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what have been the running costs of Ministers' private offices in her Department in each year since 1997. [123100]
Margaret Beckett
The running costs of Ministers' private offices in my Department since 8 June 2001 (when Defra was formed) were as follows:
| Year end 31 March | £ |
| 2001–021 | 943,101 |
| 2002–03 | 1,194,162 |
| 2003–042 | 269,367 |
1 Part year
2 To 31 July 2003