Departments: IPPR

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding his Department provided to (a) the IPPR and (b) IPPR Trading Ltd. in each year since May 1997; and for what purposes. (125719)

The Department's payments to the Institute for Public Policy Research and IPPR Trading Ltd., for the period in question, were:

*£000*
	IPPR	IPPR Trading	Total
1997-98	0	—	0
1998-99	18.7	—	18.7
1999-2000	0	—	0
2000-01	5.4	—	5.4
2001-02	0	—	0
2002-03	29.8	—	29.8
2003-04	99.9	20.9	120.8
2004-05	—	4.1	4.1
2005-06	—	4.7	4.7

The purpose of expenditure was for research projects and consultancy work. More details could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 462: debated on Thursday 28 June 2007