Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 20 October 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the total spending by her Department on (a) staff, (b) accommodation and (c) procurement in (i) Banff and Buchan and (ii) the North East of Scotland was for the most recent year for which figures are available.
The Department does not employ any staff in the Banff and Buchan constituency. The staff employed in North East Scotland are not based in a DEFRA building. The costs of these staff, estimated on a standard cost basis, are shown in the table, together with an estimate of accommodation overheads are based on a Regional specific percentage of the staff costs. It is not possible to isolate procurement costs by constituency.
(i) Banff and Buchan | (ii) NE Scotland(2) | |
---|---|---|
(a) Staff | 135 | 1,749 |
(b) Accommodation | 1 | 17 |
(c) Procurement | n/k | n/k |
(2)The Scotland parliamentary constituency map was divided into three regions"; Highlands and Islands, Central Scotland and Borders. The nearest approximation to NE Scotland was the Highlands and Islands region". This was used for this answer and covers the following parliamentary constituencies.
Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine
Angus
Banff and Buchan
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Gordon
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Moray
Na h-Eileannan an Iar
Ochil and Perthshire South
Stirling
Information on regional distribution of staff at
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