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HOUSE OF COMMONS 5 YEAR SUMMARY
| Financial Year |
1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
1999-00 |
2000-01 |
COST SUMMARY |
| figures in £000s |
|
Outturn |
Outturn |
Outturn |
Outturn(1) |
Estimate |
|
| Administration Vote |
68,290 |
72,879 |
81,158 |
81,281 |
| Works Services Vote |
61,902 |
72,349 |
92,392 |
83,302 |
| Of which Portcullis House |
30,002 |
35,958 |
55,849 |
44,769 |
|
|
|
130,192 |
145,228 |
173,550 |
164,583 |
| Administrative Expenditure |
|
|
|
|
150,521 |
| Of which Portcullis House |
|
|
|
|
24,000 |
| Members' Salaries etc Vote(2) |
81,766 |
95,819 |
86,175 |
91,799 |
95,416 |
|
| Total House of Commons Costs |
211,958 |
241,047 |
259,725 |
256,382 |
245,937 |
ACTIVITY INDICATORS(3)
|
figures as shown
|
| Number of sitting days* |
152 |
150 |
157 |
157 |
| Number of hours past the moment of interruption* |
113 |
137 |
154 | 203 |
| Number of House staff† |
1,311.5 |
1,428.0 |
1,402.0 |
1,411.0(4) |
| Number of Select Committee sittings* |
887 |
524 |
1,199 |
1,024(5) |
| Published price of Daily Hansard(£)‡ |
5.0 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
| Average number of pages per day for Hansard* |
117 |
108 |
128 |
124 |
| Cost per page of the Vote Bundle (£)‡ |
0.18 |
0.18 |
0.18 |
0.18 |
| Average number of pages for the Vote Bundle* |
229 |
199 |
268 |
238 |
| Number of Members' individual offices† |
589 |
589 |
589 |
589 |
| Number of Members' staff |
| paid by the Fees Office† |
1,765 |
1,846 |
1,849 |
1,867 |
*For the Financial Year
†At the end of the Financial Year
‡Calendar Year
NOTES
(1) The 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) Head count at
31 March.
(5) 1996-97
figures are for 1995-96 Session, 1997-98 figures are for the 1996-97
Session, figures for 1998-99 are for the Financial Year
1998-99 and figures for 1999-2000 are for the Financial Year 1999-2000.
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