COST OF SELECT COMMITTEES
Excluding direct staff costs,
total expenditure by Committees in the last financial year 1995-96
was £3,975,545. The following tables illustrate that costs
have been effectively contained since the departmental select
committees were established in 1979 while the work done as measured
by the number of reports produced has increased.
| Average per Committee* per session
| FY 1980-81
| FY 1994-95
| FY 1995-96
|
| Number of formal meetings+
| 34
| 33
| 30
|
| Number of Reports
| 3.8
| 7.3
| 5.8
|
| Expenditure on specialist advice
| £7,819
| £10,657
(£5,306)#
| £10,003
(£4,863)#
|
| Transcription of evidence (shorthand writing
| £5,310
| £23,188
(£11,544)#
| £22,304
(£10,844)#
|
| Overseas visits
| £8,517
| £26,172
(£13,030)#
| £31,843
(£15,482)#
|
| UK visits
| £854
| £4,577
(£2,279)#
| £5,848
(£2,843)#
|
| Total cost of committees (excluding directly employed staff)
| £2,250,315
| £3,758,286
(£1,871,072)#
| £3,975,545
(£1,932,893)#
|
* Average for Departmental
Committees, PAC and PCA Committees
+ Visits
and informal meetings are not included
# Figures
in brackets are deflated by the increase in the RPI since 1980-81.
|
