Regional Development Agencies: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many staff are employed by each of the regional development agencies; what each agency's expenditure was in each of the last five years; and what the staffing cost of each agency was in the last year for which figures are available. (188922)

The following table shows staff employed and costs by RDAs in 2006-07.

RDAs	Staff employed	Staffing cost (£000)
AWM	327	15,238
EEDA	223	11,382
EMDA	247	10,084
LDA	488	30,656
NWDA	402	19,321
ONE	446	15,394
SEEDA	342	17,248
SWRDA	303	13,538
YF	428	17,957
Note: Costs include salaries, national insurance, pensions, staff and board members

The RDAs grant in aid budgets for the last five years is set out in the following table.

*£ million*
RDAs	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
AWM	204	240	217	310	281
EEDA	88	80	84	139	140
EMDA	101	117	119	168	161
LDA	295	317	328	371	416
NWDA	274	309	367	402	402
ONE	193	223	227	254	273
SEEDA	112	136	110	165	172
SWRDA	103	99	113	168	171
YF	211	244	288	310	313

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 26 February 2008