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Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Answer

The annual expenditure by MoJ—not including the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG)—on press cuttings from 2005-06 onwards was:

	£
2005-06	62,278
2006-07	23,009
2007-08	56,663
2008-09	94,075
2009-10	¹144,724
¹ The primary cause of the higher spend in 2009-10 was the increase in high profile issues concerning the department in that Year. Additionally in 2009-10 regional coverage and a digital service were added.

The data for 2005-06 and 2006-07 refer to press cutting services provided for the Department of Constitutional Affairs (MoJ's immediate predecessor for the elements not contained within the Home Office). The data for 2007-08 to 2009-10 refer to a joint service provided to MoJ headquarters, the National Offender Management Service, The Tribunals Service and HM Courts Service.The total spend by the MoJ and its predecessors is held for locally only from 2005-06. Retrieving archived information for before 2005 would exceed the disproportionate cost and time limits.OPG was formed in 2007 and maintains a separate press cutting service. Its annual expenditure on these services was:

	£
2007-08	7,477
2008-09	4,181
2009-10	3,595

Additionally, the Tribunals Service has also maintained a separate press cutting service for web based news since May 2008. Its annual expenditure these services from May 2008 was:

	£
May 2008 - July 2009	4,136
August 2009 - July 2010	2,300
August 2010 - July 2011	2,421

Before 2006 the tribunals were not part of one single agency. It would incur disproportionate costs to identify tribunals-specific expenditure in the various departments that operated tribunals between 1997-98 and 2005-06.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

28154; 520 c119-20W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Press Ministry of Justice Subscriptions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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