Government Offices for the Regions: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) running cost and (b) aggregate programme expenditure was of each Government Office of the Regions in 2008-09. (317985)

The running (admin) cost and aggregate programme expenditure for each of the regional Government Offices for 2008-09 was as follows:

£
Regional Government Office	Running (admin) costs expenditure 2008-09	Aggregate programme expenditure 2008-09
GO North East	10,178,900	63,201,887
GO North West	12,191,200	587,300,000
GO Yorkshire and Humber	8,922,600	1,441,209,521
GO West Midlands	10,837,400	100,156,000
GO East Midlands	8,932,000	51,181,868
GO East	9,109,600	65,257,342
GO South East	10,561,400	209,777,489
GO South West	10,467,500	545,083,981
GO London	11,811,500	100,367,713

The aggregate programme expenditure figure is made up of the programme budgets delegated by 12 Sponsor Departments directly to each regional Government Office and includes European expenditure.

The existing Sponsor Departments are CLG, BIS, DfT, DCFS, DWP, DEFRA, Home Office, MoJ, DECC, DCMS, Cabinet Office and DoH.

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2010