Select committees cost nearly £15m last year
By Bradley Rogers - 30th June 2010
Just noticed this written answer giving the overall costs of running select committees in financial year 2009-10.
A more detailed committee by committee breakdown is due soon.
Staffing - £10,115,595
Printing - £2,596,004
Overseas travel - £1,057,820
UK travel - £150,228
Specialist advisers - £322,014
Research, specialist publications -£80,933
Transcription of evidence - £511,879
Witnesses' expenses - £27,186
Entertainment and other minor expenses - £19,942
Total - £14,881,601
So the recently-announced plans to cut £800,000 from their overseas travel budget is actually around a five per cent saving overall. Perhaps it might be better to cut down on the number of copies of reports etc being printed.
Anyone know what percentage of committee papers that are printed are then pulped?
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