There have not been any challenges.
The National Consumer Council (NCC) consists of three Councils: the Scottish Consumer Council (SCC) based in Glasgow, the Welsh Consumer Council (WCC) based in Cardiff, and NCC London.
A list of research projects has been placed in the Library of the House.
The Department pays the NCC in the form of annual grant in aid as shown in the following table; this covers the vast majority of its costs and is not identified on a project-by-project basis.
A comparable set of figures is not available owing to changes to accounting rules for non-departmental public bodies with cash-based allocations until 2002-03, and resource based allocations since then. The total budget includes both the resource/grant in aid from DTI and income from (in the past DTI and) other sources that is for specific projects. An example of the major sources is given for last year. Fuller information on sources and amounts involved is detailed in annual reports available in the Library of the House.
Approximately 15 per cent. of NCC’s grant in aid is allocated to SCC, then 11 per cent. to WCC, leaving 74 per cent. to be spent in London.
Resource budget (£ million) (DTI DEL) Cash budget (£ million) (rounded to £000) NCC total budget (£ million) (rounded to £100,000) 2006-07 3.528 13.541 — 2005-06 3.932 23.779 35.9 2004-05 4.059 24.039 5.0 2003-04 3.565 23.973 5.6 2002-03 — 3.682 5.1 2001-02 — 3.565 4.5 2000-01 — 3.084 3.6 1999-2000 — 2.587 3.3 1998-99 — 2.366 3.0 1997-98 — 2.425 3.2 1 Indicative 2 Cash supplied 3 For example included £897,000 from Scottish Executive and £45,000 from DEFRA