Departmental Postal Services

Mr. Weir
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department spent on Royal Mail services in each of the last two years.

Dan Norris
The combined spend of core-DEFRA and the DEFRA executive agencies from information held centrally is as follows:

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|Financial year|£ million|
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|2007-08       |5.58     |
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|2008-09       |5.32     |
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