Departmental Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent by his Department on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which companies were contracted to carry out the surveys. (260873)

The costs for DWP surveys in the last five years are as follows:

	£
2004-05	¹110,000
2005-06	¹99,595
2006-07	²47,041
2007-08	¹114,535
2008-09	¹115,245
¹ Full census. ² 20 per cent. sample.

The survey supplier for all these surveys was ORC International.

Volume 489: debated on Wednesday 11 March 2009