Departmental Furniture

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) chairs, (b) desks and (c) other office furnishings have been purchased by his Department and its agencies in each of the last five years; and at what cost in each case. (211769)

The information requested is as follows:

*20032004200520062007*
	Quantity	Cost £ million	Quantity	Cost £ million	Quantity	Cost £ million	Quantity	Cost £ million	Quantity	Cost £ million
Chairs	29,247	2.340	40,602	3.248	36,520	2.922	29,982	2.398	26,667	2.133
Desks	10,900	2.834	21,414	5.568	10,108	2.628	10,940	2.844	9,379	2.439
Other office furniture	78,575	4.715	86,483	5.189	67,733	4.064	59,216	3.553	52,721	3.163

These figures include furniture provided for major barracks and Single Living Accommodation investment programmes, but exclude PFI/PPP projects where the furniture is supplied by the Industrial Partner and forms a part of the overall project costs.

Volume 479: debated on Monday 29 September 2008