Alan Brown – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to expenditure on (a) DWP Administration, (b) the Government Equalities Office, (c) the Health and Safety Executive, (d) the Work Welfare and Equalities Group and (e) the Working Age Client Group in the schedule of comparable programme objects in HM Treasury’s publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, (i) how much of that expenditure in which locations was on (A) property and (B) personnel and (ii) how many people in which locations were employed through such expenditure between 2010 and 2015.
Priti Patel
The level of disaggregation is not readily available. DWP Expenditure for the years 2010-11 to 2014-15 is shown in the table below.
DWP, Departmental Expenditure Limit Resource Outturn, £million
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
| DWP | 9,152 | 7,624 | 7,497 | 7,615 | 7,152 |
| Of which: | |||||
| Health and Safety Executive (net) | 203 | 175 | 162 | 155 | 139 |
| Operational Delivery | 1,294 | 2,487 | 2,865 | 2,866 | 2,191 |
| Employment Programmes | 1,814 | 876 | 802 | 1,037 | 950 |
More information is available in the Department’s report and accounts which are available at gov.uk. A link to the latest report is provided below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015
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