To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what Government funding streams are available to the Government Offices for the Regions; and if she will make a statement. (188909)

The Government Offices for the Regions have specific responsibility for an administration running cost budget and a capital budget.

Programme budgets administered by the Government Offices are the responsibility of the Secretaries of State for the relevant sponsor Departments. The Departments delegate authority to the Regional Directors to spend against their programmes, though all expenditure incurred is recorded in the accounts of the Department concerned.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 6 February 2008, Official Report, column 1180W, on Government Offices for the Regions: finance, what the total expenditure was of each of the Government offices in 2006-07. (189236)

The total running cost expenditure in each of the Government offices in 2006-07 is as follows: