Departmental Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for which regulators and inspectorates his Department has had responsibility in each year since 1997; what the budget was of each such body in each year; and what the cost to the public purse was of any restructuring of each such body in each year. (175312)

The annual budget information in respect of regulators and inspectorates for which DWP has responsibility is shown in the following table.

*£ million*
Financial year ending	The Pensions Regulator	Health and Safety Executive	Benefit Fraud Inspectorate	Independent Case Examiner	Independent Review Service for the Social Fund
1997	3.40	177.85	3.44	¹Nil	²4.16
1998	7.74	178.09	5.80	1.03	²4.26
1999	8.83	176.95	5.64	0.92	3.97
2000	9.84	181.74	5.88	1.04	3.63
2001	10.98	188.79	5.55	1.18	3.73
2002	12.96	202.70	7.11	1.62	3.66
2003	15.71	201.63	7.71	1.87	3.97
2004	17.18	197.27	7.86	2.24	3.81
2005	22.76	214.85	7.10	2.47	4.27
2006	³27.38	⁴238.1 6	5.60	2.74	4.00
2007	31.92	232.85	3.44	2.79	4.19
¹ The Independent Case Examiner's office was operational from 7 April 1997. ² Include accommodation costs—budgeted centrally under PRIME from 1999. ³ Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority prior to 2006. ⁴ The 2005/06 outturn has been restated (for comparison purposes) to reflect the transfer of responsibility for rail regulation from HSE to the Office of Rail Regulation on 1 April 2006. The total amount before the transfer was £244.3 million.

The information on restructuring costs is not available/held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008