Parliamentary Search

Written question asked by Robert Halfon (Conservative) on Monday, 29 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 1 December 2010. It was answered by Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative) on Monday, 17 January 2011 on behalf of the Home Office.

Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on press cuttings services in each year since 1997.
Answer

Press cutting services are used to inform policy development and parliamentary decisions across a wide range of issues.The Department's expenditure on press cuttings is set out in the following table. Expenditure on the UK Border Agency (now a Home Office agency) has been excluded to allow comparability of expenditure across the years.

Financial year Expenditure (£)
2005-06 116,000
2006-07 297,000
2007-08 206,000
2008-09 181,000
2009-10 182,000
2010-11 (expenditure up to November 2010) 105,000

Each year's data is expressed in that year's current prices and therefore do not take account of inflation. Data prior to April 2005 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.Figures quoted in the table are inclusive of VAT and all National Licensing Authority Fees. Extracting these costs would be disproportionately costly.All expenditure is incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
28144; 521 c487-8W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Home Office Press Subscriptions
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk