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Government Offices for the Regions: Finance

Volume 508: debated on Thursday 25 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the (a) running cost and (b) aggregate programme expenditure was of the Government Office for each region in 2009-10; (323101)

(2) pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne of 24 February 2010, Official Report, column 611W, on Government Offices for the Regions: finance, what the aggregate monetary value was of programme budgets in the most recent year for which figures are available.

The information requested is as follows:

£

2009-10

Regional Government Office

Projected running (admin) costs expenditure

Projected Aggregate programme expenditure

GO North East

8,673,300

8,966,485

GO North West

11,051,400

37,135,586

GO Yorkshire and Humber

9,049,700

24,492,668

GO West Midlands

11,373,700

12,353,792

GO East Midlands

7,856,600

7,856,265

GO East

8,899,400

13,760,080

GO South East

10,139,500

9,935,892

GO South West

9,625,000

6,403,683

GO London

11,051,100

68,242,781

Programme figures relate solely to programmes which are administered by the GOs on behalf of the 12 sponsoring Departments.

Projected aggregate programme expenditure for 2009-10 excludes European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) expenditure. The details of the ERDF 2000-06 expenditure defrayed in 2009-10 will not be available until September 2010, at the earliest, after the audits are completed by the Director General for Regional Policy-European Commission. ERDF expenditure for 2007-13 is administered by the Regional Development Agency’s (RDAs).

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the administration costs of the Government Offices for the Regions were in each year since 1996-97. (324019)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

From 2001-02 the Government Office Network changed the way it accounted for corporate service administration budgets centralising the Information Communication Technology budgets rather than them being managed by the individual Government Offices. Further centralisation of budgets took place for Learning and Development in 2007-08 and Estates from 2008-09.

Government Office Administrative Running Costs: GO outturn expenditure from 1996-07 to 200809 and projected outturn expenditure from 2009-10

Government Office

1996-97

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

North East

8,687.15

8,616.75

8,618.84

8,312.05

8,197.33

9,002.29

9,954.46

North West¹

9,839.09

9,442.59

13,690.13

13,048.58

13,651.03

15,344.87

15,523.52

Merseyside¹

4,349.95

4,199.53

12.24

Yorks and Humber

8,765.04

8,475.01

8,683.92

8,888.68

9,357.48

10,036.85

10,943.77

West Midlands

10,040.37

9,757.79

9,474.35

9,330.15

9,960.76

10,295.51

10,662.85

East Midlands

6,616.67

6,436.24

6,754.39

6,951.28

7,335.77

8,244.80

8,713.24

East

6,168.97

6,270.62

6,269.43

7,005.47

7,542.48

8,631.95

9,355.85

South West

7,140.74

6,825.73

6,985.03

7,796.87

8,711.38

10,666.90

11,860.77

South East

8,406.18

8,544.99

8,561.40

8,658.61

9,477.26

10,326.44

10,874.74

London

14,106.47

13,458.82

13,238.12

13,715.79

13,860.98

13,161.20

14,038.84

Corporate Services²

1,696.34

4,355.96

3,095.29

3,702.74

4,732.81

9,507.95

7,531.60

Total

85,816.97

86,384.03

85,383.14

87,410.22

92,827.28

105,218.76

109,459.64

Projected

Government Office

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

North East

12,167.24

13,887.09

13,138.16

12,730.25

11,826.45

10,178.90

8,673.30

North West¹

16,808.94

17,777.86

17,745.45

16,933.67

16,095.53

12,184.09

11,051.40

Merseyside¹

Yorks and Humber

12,480.23

13,453.18

13,494.30

10,676.64

13,447.21

8,922.60

9,049.70

West Midlands

13,381.47

15,286.08

14,497.15

14,925.87

15,000.75

10,834.07

11,373.70

East Midlands

11,153.67

11,937.13

12,530.66

11,490.17

10,857.39

8,873.74

7,856.60

East

12,841.51

15,075.61

13,296.12

12,211.64

11,398.50

9,109.56

8,899.40

South West

13,960.23

14,724.92

14,823.08

13,677.13

13,763.68

10,461.02

9,625.00

South East

14,099.03

14,372.51

14,624.51

14,570.49

13,105.84

10,559.56

10,139.50

London

16,654.91

18,870.09

18,483.70

17,595.20

16,198.99

11,811.52

11,051.10

Corporate services²

14,988.76

13,389.19

14,693.52

16,348.41

16,743.70

39,217.91

37,230.04

Total

138,535.98

148,773.66

147,326.65

141,159.47

138,438.04

132,152.97

124,949.74

¹ GO-North West and GO-Merseyside merged during 1998-1999.

² From 2001-02 the Government Office Network changed the way it accounted for corporate service administration budgets centralising the Information Communication Technology budgets rather than them being managed by the individual Government Offices. Further centralisation of budgets took place for Learning and Development in 2007-08 and Estates from 2008-09.