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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

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