The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) incurred costs of £2.65 million in 2006-07 and £1.62 million in the current financial year to October for external meetings. Total costs by location are shown below. Information on the purpose of each meeting could be collected only at disproportionate cost, but a significant number were stakeholder meetings on key areas of QCA’s work, such as developing Diplomas and the national consultation on the Secondary Curriculum.
Location Amount (£) 2006-07 (April-March) Bath 1,179 Belfast 48,244 Birmingham 128,396 Blackburn 15,366 Bolton 395 Bournemouth 1,992 Bradford 2,727 Brighton 3,188 Bristol 23,542 Bromley 617 Cambridge 2,233 Cardiff 817 Chelmsford 2,831 Coventry 186,135 Crewe 1,101 Doncaster 205 Dudley 609 Enfield 5,509 Exeter 271 Guildford 5,058 Hemel Hempstead 2,767 Ipswich 1,062 Kingston upon Thames 81,371 Lancaster 1,088 Leeds 19,932 Leicester 37,340 Liverpool 2,181 Llandudno 1,481 London 1,472,455 Manchester 57,208 Middlesbrough 3,000 Milton Keynes 124,694 Newcastle upon Tyne 9,517 Northampton 134,684 Nottingham 2,950 Oldham 208 Oxford 8,491 Preston 220 Reading 53,303 Redhill 411 Sheffield 27,277 Slough 29,086 Southampton 12,364 St. Albans 1,101 Stockport 60,186 Stoke-on -Trent 1,756 Swansea 705 Telford 8,572 Truro 1,109 Twickenham 3,631 Wakefield 270 Warrington 30,000 Watford 2,228 Wolverhampton 212 York 28,777 Total 2,652,052 2007-08 (April-October) Bath 500 Belfast 1,116 Birmingham 43,917 Blackburn 5,763 Bournemouth 31,319 Bristol 4,406 Bromley 1,050 Cambridge 589 Cardiff 1,150 Chelmsford 1,893 Chester 17,214 Coventry 99,774 Crewe 11,958 Croydon 304 Darlington 1,058 Derby 800 Doncaster 316 Dudley 563 Exeter 3,542 Gloucester 2,535 Harrogate 1,256 Hemel Hempstead 2,218 Hereford 470 Huddersfield 240 Hull 2,400 Ipswich 5,145 Kingston upon Thames 54,395 Lancaster 6,711 Leeds 5,961 Liverpool 525 London 1,050,836 Manchester 11,118 Middlesbrough 3,800 Milton Keynes 29,245 Northampton 39,529 Norwich 1,946 Nottingham 979 Oxford 45,943 Peterborough 469 Plymouth 6,334 Preston 6,575 Reading 10,747 Redhill 8,234 Rochester 527 Salisbury 242 Sheffield 2,512 Southampton 3,350 Stockport 29,164 Stoke-on-Trent 1,558 Sunderland 316 Swansea 2,250 Taunton 4,479 Truro 898 Tunbridge Welts 251 Uxbridge 4,277 Walsall 193 Watford 530 Wolverhampton 735 Worcester 14,417 York 28,447 Total 1,618,989
The London hotels used by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in the months from May this year, and the monthly cost, are shown in the following table. Information on the purpose of each booking could be collected only at disproportionate cost, but a significant number of these events were related to the national consultation on the Secondary Curriculum.
Month 2007 Hotel Cost (£) May City Inn Westminster Flemings Mayfair Hotel Hilton London Green Park Holiday Inn Mayfair Holiday Inn-London Bloomsbury Hotel Russell Le Meridien Piccadilly Millennium Hotel (London Mayfair) Novotel London Euston The Chesterfield Mayfair The Washington Mayfair 106,380 June Bonnington Hotel London Flemings Mayfair Hotel Hilton London Green Park Holiday Inn Mayfair Hotel Russell The Chesterfield Mayfair 43,567 July Bonnington Hotel London Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington Flemings Mayfair Hotel Hilton London Islington Holiday Inn Mayfair Hotel Russell Langham Hotel The Cavendish London The Chesterfield Mayfair The Park Lane Hotel Thistle Hotel Marble Arch 70,623 August Flemings Mayfair Hotel Holiday Inn Mayfair Millennium Hotel (London Mayfair) The Chesterfield Mayfair The Rubens At The Palace Hotel 12,239 September Flemings Mayfair Hotel Hilton London Green Park Hilton London Islington Hilton London Metropole Holiday Inn Mayfair Millennium Gloucester Hotel Millennium Hotel (London Mayfair) The Chesterfield Mayfair The Cumberland Hotel The Park Lane Hotel 74,919 October Flemings Mayfair Hotel Le Meridien Piccadilly Radisson Edwardian Marlborough Hotel Rubens at the Palace The Chesterfield Mayfair Thistle Hotel Westminster 18,802 Total 326,530