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 Alistair Burt (Conservative) on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Departmental Press: Subscriptions
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department spent on newspapers, periodicals and trade profession magazines in each year since 1997.
- Answer
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office introduced a new financial accounting system in March 2004 therefore the figures given for the period before 2004-05 have been collected on a different basis from the subsequent period. From 2004 onwards, the costs quoted are worldwide spend and include monies spent on electronic subscriptions to enable staff based in the UK and our posts worldwide to access a range of different media.
Financial year £ 1997-98 489,895 1998-99 586,510 1999-2000 566,067 2000-01 588,078 2001-02 590,721 2002-03 608,401 2003-04 ¹— 2004-05 2,101,892 2005-06 1,747,126 2006-07 2,221,786 2007-08 3,207,113 2008-09 1,973,251 2009-10 2,436,547 ¹ Not held.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 16225; 517 c253-4W
- Session
- 2010-12
- Subjects
- Press Foreign and Commonwealth Office Subscriptions
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
- View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk
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