Further to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) on 18 February 2008, Official Report, column 381W, we said that the costs incurred in setting up the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform were £218,063. These costs included stationery, rebranding and IT changes, including revised email addresses, new signage, web-based changes, new logo and print costs and the anticipated cost of branding guidelines. This figure is also quoted in my letter of 26 November 2007, to the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Susan Kramer). A copy of this letter was placed in the Libraries of the House.

Those costs included an estimate of £24,000 for the costs of producing branding guidelines, which had not been completed at the time. These branding guidelines have subsequently been completed: the final costs were £20,000. Therefore, the final total costs are £214,063.

My noble Friend Baroness Vadera, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Competitiveness is today answering a written question from Lord Barnett which updates the original costs as above.