To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will estimate the average annual cost to each Department of (a) a Secretary of State, (b) a Minister of State and (c) a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the last 12 months. (273142)

[holding answer 7 May 2009]: Instruction on the reporting of the remuneration of Government Ministers is set out by HM Treasury in the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM). Under this guidance, information on ministerial salaries is provided in the remuneration section of Departments' annual Resource Accounts, copies of which are in the Library of the House.