Highways Agency

Mr. Norman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his Answer of 3 March 2003, Official Report, column 798W, on the Highways Agency, what the total pay costs incurred by the Highways Agency were in each year since 1997. [113375]

Mr. Jamieson
The salary costs for civil servants employed by the Highways Agency on 1 January for the past seven years are set out in the following table: ------
|Year|
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|1997|
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|1998|
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|1999|
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|2000|
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|2001|
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|2002|
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|2003|
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