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European Union: Diplomatic Service

Volume 477: debated on Monday 16 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost was of the UK Permanent Representation to the EU in each of the last 10 years. (208781)

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.