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Written question asked by Bernard Jenkin (Conservative) on Tuesday, 16 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 18 November 2010. It was answered by Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative) on Monday, 20 December 2010 on behalf of the Home Office.


Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much (a) her Department and (b) the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible spent on press cuttings services in each of the last 12 months.
Answer

The Department's expenditure, including that of its executive agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies, is set out in the table.Figures quoted are inclusive of VAT and include all National Licensing Authority Fees. Extracting these costs would result in the PQ becoming unanswerable due to disproportionate cost.All expenditure is incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety.

Expenditure on press cutting service
Rounded to nearest £
National Policing Improvement Agency Independent Safeguarding Authority Independent Police Complaints Commission Security Industry Authority Serious and Organised Crime Agency Criminal Records Bureau Identity and Passport Service Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner UK Border Agency Home Office HQ
November 2009 ¹750 per quarter on electronic media service 0 2,231 676 2,459 412 6,418 0 1,015 12,564
December 2009 ¹— 0 2,278 711 2,234 595 4,618 0 874 12,718
January 2010 ¹— 0 3,792 584 2,263 400 5,589 0 126 16,561
February 2010 ¹— 1,118 3,157 610 2,570 282 5,574 0 501 29,633
March 2010 ¹— 1,477 4,071 644 3,265 292 5,085 0 2,212 27,300
April 2010 ¹— 1,698 3,344 519 2,458 280 4,843 0 520 7,826
May 2010 ¹— 1,563 2,477 509 1,783 290 3,189 0 339 16,269
June 2010 ¹— 1,995 3,675 611 2,061 307 1,145 0 554 20,602
July 2010 ¹— 770 6,109 535 2,235 371 763 0 2,224 11,530
August 2010 ¹— 528 2,774 1,177 2,033 616 958 0 1,693 17,256
September 2010 ¹— 523 3,874 671 2,033 502 695 0 1,610 15,379
October 2010 ¹— 493 2,906 464 1,817 584 648 0 795 6,210
Total 3,000 10,165 40,688 7,711 27,211 4,931 39,525 0 12,463 193,848
¹ Indicates a brace.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
25487; 520 c1094-6W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Home Office Press Subscriptions
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk