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Geomatics Group

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 98W, on the Environment Agency, (1) what the expected (a) turnover and (b) profit of the Geomatics Group in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 is; and if he will make a statement; (242786)

(2) what the (a) turnover and (b) profit of the Geomatics Group was in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement.

The current anticipated total turnover of the Geomatics Group is:

£

2008-09

4,789,000

2009-10

4,330,000

2010-2011

4,113,000

This includes work undertaken for the rest of the Environment Agency, which Geomatics makes no profit from. The level of profit on work undertaken for external customers is commercially confidential.

The total turnover of the Geomatics Group in 2007-08 was £3,565,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 98W, on the Environment Agency, what proportion of the profit made by the Geomatics Group was transferred to the Environment Agency in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. (242787)

Geomatics Group is a business unit within the Environment Agency and therefore 100 per cent. was transferred to the Environment Agency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 98W, on the Environment Agency, with whom the Geomatics Group held contracts from which it derived income in 2007-08, broken down by contract value; and if he will make a statement. (242788)

This information is commercially confidential, as releasing it could give a commercial advantage to other organisations.