Regional Development Agencies: Manpower Mr. Jeremy Browne To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many staff are employed by each of the regional development agencies; what each agency's expenditure was in each of the last five years; and what the staffing cost of each agency was in the last year for which figures are available. Mr. McFadden The following table shows staff employed and costs by RDAs in 2006-07. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |RDAs |Staff employed|Staffing cost (£000)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |AWM |327 |15,238 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EEDA |223 |11,382 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |EMDA |247 |10,084 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |LDA |488 |30,656 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |NWDA |402 |19,321 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |ONE |446 |15,394 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |SEEDA |342 |17,248 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |SWRDA |303 |13,538 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |YF |428 |17,957 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note: Costs include salaries, national insurance, pensions, staff and board members| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The RDAs grant in aid budgets for the last five years is set out in the following table. ----------------------------------------------- |RDAs |2002-03|2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07| ----------------------------------------------- |AWM |204 |240 |217 |310 |281 | ----------------------------------------------- |EEDA |88 |80 |84 |139 |140 | ----------------------------------------------- |EMDA |101 |117 |119 |168 |161 | ----------------------------------------------- |LDA |295 |317 |328 |371 |416 | ----------------------------------------------- |NWDA |274 |309 |367 |402 |402 | ----------------------------------------------- |ONE |193 |223 |227 |254 |273 | ----------------------------------------------- |SEEDA|112 |136 |110 |165 |172 | ----------------------------------------------- |SWRDA|103 |99 |113 |168 |171 | ----------------------------------------------- |YF |211 |244 |288 |310 |313 | -----------------------------------------------