Commercial Directorate: Operating Costs

Mr. Oaten

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the costs of running the Commercial Directorate since it was established. (182937)

[holding answer 28 January 2008]: The Department's Commercial Directorate was established in 2003-04. The direct running costs to 2007-08, which relate to civil servant pay and non-pay costs, are shown in the following table:

	£ million
2003-04	—
2004-05	0.5
2005-06	1.0
2006-07	0.8
2007-08¹	0.9
Total	3.2
¹ Forecast.

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008