Regional Offices

Mr. Tony Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on the regional offices of Government Ministries in 1989–90, broken down by Ministry and separating out the cost of running the regional office from the funding programmes it discharges and showing the expenditure on, and of, each regional office separately.

Mr. Heseltine
[holding answer 22 January 1991]: The estimated costs of running each regional office of the------------------------------------
|Standard economic planning regions|
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|South east                        |
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|South West                        |
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|East Anglia                       |
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|West Midlands                     |
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|East Midlands                     |
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|North West                        |
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|Yorkshire and Humberside          |
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|Northern Region                   |
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The expenditure on urban programme includes previously with DES, DH and DTp. The totals also include LAs contribution (25 per cent.).