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Departmental Expenditure

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006

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David T.C. Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has spent on organising and hosting conferences in the last 12 months. (93101)

Barry Gardiner

DEFRA expenditure on conference organisation and sponsorship through DEFRA Communications Directorate plus centrally recorded spend from DEFRA's financial chart of accounts during the last 12 months was £3,562,246.04 This is comprised of:

Conference organisation sponsorship for Core DEFRA 12 Month spend: 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006

(£)

Non-Pay Operational Costs of Conference Provision (i.e. administrative costs excluding DEFRA staff salaries)

814,373.78

UK/EU presidency in 2005—Residual Payments

97,622.42

Communications Directorate Facility Managed Conferences

600,803.51

G8 and European Union Presidency

1,242,684.72

G8 and International Climate Change

806,761.61

Total

3,562,246.04

Note:These figures do not include costs incurred by any DEFRA Agency/NDPB, as this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Chris Huhne

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his Department has (a) planned to spend and (b) spent in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. (98628)

Barry Gardiner

DEFRA’s final Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) Budget and final DEL outturn for each year since its creation are shown in the following table.

£000

Financial year

Final DEL budget

DEL outturn

2001-02

2,959,389

2,781,687

2002-03

2,469,291

2,320,880

2003-04

3,139,131

2,880,514

2004-05

3,480,986

3,317,788

2005-06

3,520,266

3,519,164

Note:

2005-06 figures are provisional