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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 16 September 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of the (a) Committee of Investigation for Great Britain, (b) Expert Group on Cryptosporidium in Water Supplies, (c) Family Food Committee, (d) Financial Management and Policy Review of the Commons Commissioners, (e) Hill Farming Advisory Committee, (f) National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution, (g) National Rural Development Forum, (h) National Statistics Quality Review on Sustainable Farming and Food Regulation Task Force, (i) Review of Fishing Vessel Licensing, (j) Review of Funding Mechanisms for Food and Coastal Defence, (k) Review of Marine Nature Conservation Working Group Science Advisory Group, (l) Sustainable Consumption and Production Business Taskforce, (m) Sustainable Development Taskforce, (n) Sustainable Farming and Food Implementation Group and (o) Sustainable Farming and Food Research Priorities Group in each of the last five years. (291099)

[holding answer 14 September 2009]: The following table sets out the costs of a number of the bodies listed. Officials are currently preparing figures covering the remaining bodies and I will write to the hon. Member with this information when it is available.

£000

Actual

Body

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

(a) Committee of Investigation for Great Britain1

0

0

0

0

0

(d) Financial Management and Policy Review of the Commons Commissioners2

0

0

0

0

0

(e) Hill Farming Advisory Committee3

0

0

0

0

0

(f) National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution+

0

0

0

0

0

(h) National Statistics Quality Review on Sustainable Farming and Food Regulation Task Force5

0

0

0

0

0

(i) Review of Fishing Vessel Licensing6

0

0

0

0

0

(j) Review of Funding Mechanisms for Flood and Coastal Defence7

0

0

0

0

0

(k) Review of Marine Nature Conservation Working Group Science Advisory Group8

0

0

0

0

0

(l) Sustainable Consumption and Production Business Taskforce9

0

0

275

339

0

1 The committee was dormant before the start of the period covered by this table and was disbanded in 2006.

2 All costs were incurred prior to the period covered by this table.

3 The committee was dormant before the start of the period covered by this table and was disbanded in 2006.

4 The Group published its final report in 2001 and disbanded.

5 All costs were incurred prior to the period covered by this table.

6 The Fishing Vessel Licence Review Working Group (LRWG) published one report in the period covered by the table, in 2006. Costs to the Department were minimal.

7 All costs were incurred prior to the period covered by this table.

8 The final report of this Group was published in July 2004. Costs were minimal.

9 The Taskforce was established in February 2006. It completed its work and was disbanded in March 2008.