To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the expenditure of the Shrewsbury Environment Agency's offices was in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005 and (d) 2006. (147668)

The Shrewsbury office was the main office for the Upper Severn Area of the Midlands Region of the Environment Agency during the period in question. The catchment extends from Market Drayton and Oswestry in the north, Clywedog and Vyrnwy reservoirs in the west, Dudley and Wolverhampton in the east and south to Worcester and Ludlow.

The analysis of expenditure in the following table is by financial year, which runs from April to March: