Departmental Information Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department and its agencies have spent on employing press officers in each year since the Department's inception. (242900)

Press officer function pay costs have been estimated for the years 2002-03 to 2007-08 for the central Department and Executive agencies as follows:

*£ million*
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
DfT(C)	0.85	0.70	0.70	0.77	0.88	0.84
DSA	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
DVLA	0.14	0.15	0.18	0.19	0.19	0.14
GCDA	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
HA	0.21	0.22	0.23	0.27	0.30	0.36
MCA	0.08	0.09	0.11	0.15	0.15	0.15
VCA	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
VOSA	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04

Volume 485: debated on Tuesday 16 December 2008