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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. St. Aubyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what (a) quantitative and (b) qualitative analytical work his Department has commissioned from GGC/NOP since 1 May 1997; and what was (i) the cost of the contract and (ii) the specific nature of the work commissioned. [155660] Mr. Robert Ainsworth: [holding answer 28 March 2001]: The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Central) has commissioned the following research projects from NOP Market Research Group Ltd. and NOP Solutions since 1 May 1997: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Nature of work 1997-98 (from 1 May) Survey on home composting{1} Research on effectiveness of proposed publicity for London Government Referendum{2} 1998-99 None 1999-2000 Research on awareness of abolition of leaded petrol{1} 2000-01 (to date) Bus passenger satisfaction survey{1} DETR (Central) staff attitudes survey{1,2} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Quantitative {2} Qualitative Total planned expenditure on all these projects will reach £282,974 (excluding VAT) by the end of April 2001. Several projects involve both qualitative and quantitative research and it is not always possible to separate out the costs of these two elements. However, £252,624 of the total was spent on mostly quantitative research and £30,350 on mostly qualitative. DETR contracts like these are let through competitive tendering, in compliance with Treasury rules.In order to protect DETR's ability to purchase services at best value through the competitive tendering process we do not usually publish costs of individual contracts.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

365 c738-9W; 155660

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Costs Government departments Surveys Opinion polls Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions NOP Market Research

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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