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Regional Development Agencies: Stationery

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much each regional development agency spent on (a) stationery and (b) headed paper in each of the last five years. (182788)

RDAs do not record information to a level of detail to separate the cost of headed paper from other stationery and items bearing the agencies' logos. The following table shows how much each RDA spent on stationery and headed paper in each of the last five years.

Expenditure on stationery and headed paper1

£000

RDAs

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

AWM2

174

148

115.5

128

62

EEDA

81

67

105

99

86

EMDA

81

99

82

68

69

LDA3

187

145

181

NWDA

110

87

95

80

137

ONE

93

117

243

225

152

SEEDA

77.5

66

46

69.5

68.5

SWRDA

82

82.5

84.5

68

80

YF4

150.5

150.5

173

140

112

1 Headed paper includes business cards, compliment slips, envelopes and letterhead.

2 Includes cost of printing certain corporate materials which is not possible to separate from other stationery costs.

3 This includes cost of printing certain corporate materials such as board reports which is not possible to separate from other stationery costs.

LDA adopted new recording systems in 2004-05. Figures before 2004-05 are not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

4 This includes cost of printing certain corporate materials including the Regional Economic Strategy and Annual Accounts.