The total cost of the UK Permanent Representation to the EU in the last 10 years was as follows:
£ million 1998-2002 1— 2002-03 11.9 2003-04 11.8 2004-05 15.4 2005-06 216.3 2006-07 15.6 2007-08 3— 1 Data on costs prior to 2001-02 are not held in a format that would enable us to answer the question without incurring disproportionate cost. 2 Data for the cost of the UK Permanent Representation to the EU for 2005-06 are not separately identifiable without incurring disproportionate cost. 3 Data are not yet available for the year 2007-08. Note: The figures tabled are management information figures which include all direct and indirect post expenditure including money spent by the centre on behalf of post including: Non-cash and cash items, administration costs, staff costs (UK based and locally employed) and programme costs.