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Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Answer

The Ministry of Justice, Tribunals Service, Office of the Public Guardian, Legal Services Commission, Youth Justice Board, Criminal Cases Review Commission, Information Commissioner's Office, Office for Legal Complaints, Land Registry and National Archive spent the following on press cutting services in the last 12 months:

	£
2009
November	17,608.54
December	39,008.03
2010
January	14,590.34
February	23,685.15
March	25,511.74
April	16,005.44
May	17,949.42
June	10,768.27
July	27,371.17
August	11,691.21
September	1,070.09
October	13,805.10

These figures do not include data for the Probation Trusts. These data are not held centrally and it would incur disproportionate costs to investigate the costs incurred, if any, for the Probation Trusts.Additionally we can provide the following supporting data:"The Parole Board; the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority; the Judicial Appointments Commission; the Legal Services Board and the Office of the Legal Services Ombudsmen do not use a press cutting service.""The Criminal Cases Review Commission and Tribunals Service are invoiced annually rather than monthly in February and October respectively.""The National Archive changed suppliers in July 2010 from Adfero to Precise because the service was of a higher quality, more accurate and offered better value for money.""The LSC's contract with the press cutting agency Durrants will terminate on 21 November. The LSC's £10,000 licence with the Newspaper Licensing Agency expired on 19 October. Cancelling these contracts will save approximately £26,000 in 2010-11 and £60,000 annually. The LSC will now use the Ministry of Justice's media monitoring. To supplement this, the LSC's press office has, since 30 September 2010, been trialling a subscription to The Times and Sunday Times website at a cost of £1.00 for the first month and £8.66 for the second month. A decision on whether to continue this subscription will be made before Christmas 2010.""October figures for the Land Registry and the Information Commissioner's Office are unavailable as they have not yet received invoices for that month.""The Office for Legal Complaints has only used a press cutting service the last six weeks. The year long subscription they paid for in September has been pro rated to give the proportion of the cost that can be attributed to the last 12 months."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

25485; 519 c288-90W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Press Ministry of Justice Subscriptions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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