Departmental Expenditure

Dr. Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the central supply Government estimates 2007-08: supplementary budget information, if he will break down his Department's supplementary budget table in (a) near cash and (b) non-cash terms.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
The Department does not hold this information in the form requested and it could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The public expenditure statistical analysis (PESA) publication, however, provides a useful near-cash/non-cash split for departmental expenditure limits.

Dr. Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department spent on office refurbishment and repairs in each year since 1996-97.

Derek Twigg
The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Dr. Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the subheads are of the (a) Main Estimate, (b) Winter Supplementary Estimate and (c) Winter Supplementary Estimate (i) operating appropriations-in-aid and (ii) non-operating appropriations-in-aid provision for each of his Department’s Request for Resources in (A) near cash and (B) non-cash terms in each of the financial years 2001-02 to 2006-07;

(2) what the subheads are of the Main Estimate (a) operating appropriations-in-aid and (b) non-operating appropriations-in-aid provision for each of his Department’s Request for Resources in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms in 2007-08.

Mr. Bob Ainsworth
All operating income and non-operating income are near cash. Details of the operating and non-operating appropriations-in-aid can be found in the respective published Estimates.