Written question asked by Mike Freer (Conservative) on Wednesday, 15 September 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 October 2010. It was answered by Dominic Grieve (Conservative) on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 on behalf of the Attorney General.

Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Question: To ask the Attorney-General how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on newspapers, periodicals and trade profession magazines in each year since 1997.

Answer

The information requested is contained in the following table:

£
	CPS	RCPO	SFO	TSOL¹	NFA
1997-98	96,692	—	17,436	—	—
1998-99	95,322	—	28,093	6,505	—
1999-2000	92,876	—	28,683	8,611	—
2000-01	101,135	—	27,458	16,831	—
2001-02	102,312	—	30,742	25,571	—
2002-03	138,122	—	41,466	22,470	—
2003-04	134,187	—	59,088	3,621	—
2004-05	143,594	—	55,474	3,878	—
2005-06	229,916	113,854	64,330	11,457	—
2006-07	269,302	115,923	80,641	13,115	—
2007-08	182,865	112,611	84,067	10,633	—
2008-09	193,910	147,021	69,999	11,823	—
2009-10	201,474	²77,954	59,419	6,220	542
¹ Tsol data include costs for AGO and HMCPSI. Information is not recorded for 1997-98. ² Data up to end of December 2009. RCPO merged with CPS on 1 January 2010.

Secondary information