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Departmental Costs

Volume 453: debated on Thursday 23 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department’s (a) salary, (b) accommodation and (c) travel and other staff costs were in each of the last 10 years. (101341)

Figures for salary, accommodation, travel and other staff costs for the years for which information is readily available are shown in following table.

£000

(a) Salary

(b)Accommodation

(c)Travel and other staff costs

2003-04

84,872

25,155

25,829

2004-05

93,700

27,851

29,941

2005-06

102,506

28,842

30,976

Notes:

(a) Staff costs include wages and salaries, social security costs and other pension costs for permanently employed staff in the UK and overseas, Ministers, Special Advisors and “other”, which include costs for seconded officers and those on fixed term contracts.

(b) Accommodation costs include rent, rates, utilities and maintenance costs.

(c) The figures for travel reflect all domestic and overseas travel for Ministers, Advisers and Officials, which include the costs of accommodation and subsistence. Other staff costs include costs for training, transfer costs, overseas allowances, boarding school allowances, team recognition fund and uniforms.