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Departmental Drinking Water

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has spent on water coolers in each of the last two years. (278148)

The expenditure on water coolers by the Ministry is stated in the following table:

£

2008-09

Ministry of Justice HQ

1,382

Office of the Public Guardian

6,000

Total

7,382

2007-08

1,364

Ministry of Justice HQ

6,000

Office of the Public Guardian

7,364

HM Courts Service data are not held centrally and can be collated only on a regional basis at disproportionate cost.

Data on water cooler expenditure by the National Offender Management Service are held locally by prisons and probation boards/trusts and can be collated only at disproportionate cost.

The accounting records of the Tribunals Service do not allow for the separate identification of expenditure on water coolers except at disproportionate cost.