[holding answer 25 February 2008]: The Secretariat of England’s regional development agencies currently employs six full-time and one part-time staff. Its annual expenditure in each of the last five years is shown in the following table, split into staffing costs, office costs, and other costs where the information is available.
Staffing costs Office costs Other costs Total annual cost 2002-031 n/a n/a n/a 253 2003-042 382 355 318 457 2004-05 238 87 180 505 2005-06 257 102 252 611 2006-07 345 109 227 682 1 2002-03: The Secretariat was administered by and located in Advantage West Midlands. The information requested is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. 2 2003-04: The Secretariat was administered by three RDAs in this period and records are in archive. The information requested is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. During this period, the Secretariat shifted from a purely secretarial function in Birmingham to a more ‘shared services’/co-ordinating function in London. 3 Part year.