Departmental Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's total expenditure was on (a) administration and (b) administration claims, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, in near cash terms, in each financial year since 2000-01. (169353)

The total resource costs of the expenditure items are set out in the following table:

*£ million*
	Administration	Administration Claims
2000-01	138.2	4.7
2001-02	167.3	6.3
2002-03	161.1	5.2
2003-04	189.4	10.3
2004-05	188.5	27.9
2005-06	191.1	18.5
2006-07	189.8	22.4

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's total expenditure on welfare services, as listed in his Department's resource account code hierarchy, was in near cash terms in each financial year since 2000-01. (169355)

The total resource costs of the expenditure item are set out in the following table:

	£ million
2000-01	12.7
2001-02	16.2
2002-03	17.8
2003-04	16.8
2004-05	18.5
2005-06	18.3
2006-07	18.9

Volume 468: debated on Monday 3 December 2007