Administrative Costs Mr. Win Griffiths To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the administrative costs were of the Northern Ireland Office as a percentage of total spending since 1999. [103810] Mr. Paul Murphy Full details of the administrative costs and total annual expenditure for the Northern Ireland Office from 1999 were set out in the NIO 2002 Departmental Report, which is available in the Parliamentary Library. Copies of the relevant pages from the Report are as follows. The 2003 Departmental Report will be published in May.The percentages of the administrative costs against the Resource Budget, using the figures from the 2003 report, are as follows (approximately): ----------- | | ----------- |1998–99 | ----------- |1999–2000| ----------- |2000–01 | ----------- |2001–02 | ----------- |2002–03 | ----------- -------------------------------------------------------------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Gross Administration Costs | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Paybill | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Other | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Gross Administration Costs | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Related Administration Cost Receipts | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total net administration costs | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Departmental expenditure limit (DEL) | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Non-cash AME | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total net administration costs by activity: | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Police | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Criminal Justice | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Public Prosecution Service | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Prison | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Compensation Agency | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Bloody Sunday Inquiry/Weston Park Talks | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Other | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Net Administration Costs | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Controls and limits: | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Administration costs limits for gross controlled areas | -------------------------------------------------------------- |NIO | -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total administration costs limits for gross controlled areas| --------------------------------------------------------------