HOUSE OF COMMONS 5 YEAR SUMMARY
|
| Financial Year |
1995-96 |
1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
1999-2000 |
|
| COST SUMMARY |
| figures in £000s |
| |
Outturn |
Outturn |
Outturn |
Outturn(1) |
Estimate |
|
| Administration Vote |
68,190 |
68,290 |
72,879 |
81,157 |
85,260 |
| |
| Works Services Vote |
44,049 |
61,902 |
72,349 |
92,005 |
99,605 |
| New Parliamentary Building, Phase II |
15,633 |
30,002 |
35,958 |
54,893 |
60,000 |
| |
| Members' Salaries etc Vote(2) |
72,125 |
81,766 |
95,819 |
86,175 |
89,060 |
| |
| Total House of Commons Costs |
184,364 |
211,958 |
241,047 |
259,337 |
273,925 |
|
ACTIVITY INDICATORS(3) |
| figures as shown |
|
| Number of sitting days* |
156 |
152 |
150 |
157 |
|
| Number of hours past the moment of interruption* |
93 |
113 |
137 |
154 |
|
| Number of House staff† |
1,352.0 |
1,311.5 |
1,428.0 |
1,402.0 |
|
| Number of Select Committee sittings* |
931 |
887 |
524 |
(4)1,199 | |
| Published price of Daily Hansard(£)‡ |
5.0 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
|
| Average number of pages per day for Hansard* |
100 |
117 |
108 |
130 |
|
| Cost per page of the Vote Bundle (£)‡ |
0.18 |
0.18 |
0.18 |
0.18 |
|
| Average number of pages for the Vote Bundle* |
207 |
229 |
199 |
268 |
|
| Number of Members' individual offices† |
589 |
589 |
589 |
589 |
|
| Number of Members'staff |
|
|
|
|
|
| paid by the Fees Office† |
1,680 |
1,765 |
1,846 |
1,849 |
|
|
| * For the Financial Year |
| † At the end of the Finacial Year |
| ‡ Calendar Year |
| |
| NOTES |
| (1) The 1998-99 Outturns are subject to audit by National Audit Office. |
| (2) Although the Members' Vote is not the responsibility of the Commission it is included in the figures to provide an overall total for the cost of the House of Commons as well as indicating the interrelationship between all three Votes. |
| (3) These "activity indicators" are presented to assist the understanding of costs and to help improve the management of expenditure. |
| (4) 1996-97 figures are for 1995-96 Session, 1997-98 figures are for the 1996-97 Session and the figures for the 1998-99 are for the Financial Year 1998-99. |
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