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Written question asked by Andrew Griffiths (Conservative) on Monday, 20 June 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 22 June 2011. It was answered by Robert Neill (Conservative) on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 on behalf of the Audit Commission.

Audit Commission: Flowers

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much the Audit Commission spent on the purchase of flowers for display between January 2007 and May 2010.
Answer

This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission and I have asked the chief executive of the Audit Commission to respond to my hon. Friend direct.Letter from Eugene Sullivan, dated 28 June 2011:"Your parliamentary question has been passed to me for reply.""The Audit Commission spent £6,535.13 on the purchase of flowers for display between January 2007 and May 2010. We purchased the flowers for reception areas in our London, Bristol and Leicester offices. We stopped buying flowers for the Leicester office in July 2009. We stopped buying flowers for the Bristol and London office in September 2010. A breakdown of flower purchases for each office is shown below:"

£
Office January to December 2007 January to December 2008 January to December 2009 January to May 2010 Total
London 1,710.00 1,560.00 1,559.88 649.95 5,479.83
Bristol 122.81 418.34 198.22 15.93 755.30
Leicester ¹— ¹— 300.00 0.00 300.00
Total 1,832.81 1,978.34 2,058.10 665.88 6,535.13
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Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
61800; 530 c731-2W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Audit Commission Flowers
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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