Written question asked by Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative) on Monday, 20 July 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 12 October 2009. It was answered by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour) on Thursday, 15 October 2009 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Farming Link

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was of producing and distributing the Farming Link publication in each of the last five years.

Answer

The information is included in the following table. Farming Link was not published prior to spring 2007.

	Design (£)	Print (£)	Postage (£)
Spring 2007	19,771	31,900	¹—
Summer 2007	23,017	29,196	32,435
Autumn 2007	23,017	27,495	²0
Winter 2007-08	27,797	24,525	39,888
Spring 2008	28,892	31,310	28,925
Summer 2008	29,326	29,611	35,571
Autumn 2008	28,856	29,611	28,133
Winter 2008-09	28,242	29,690	28,198
Spring 2009	28,679	31,120	¹—
Summer 2009	28,476	32,476	29,874
Autumn 2009	24,259	32,956	¹—
¹ Figure not available. ² This edition was not distributed as it fell between the lifting of the first foot and mouth disease outbreak restrictions and the second outbreak on 12 September, 2007.

Secondary information