Written question asked by Caroline Flint (Labour) on Thursday, 9 December 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 December 2010. It was answered by Robert Neill (Conservative) on Monday, 10 January 2011 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Departmental Press: Subscriptions

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many copies of each publication to which his Department subscribes it received in (a) June, (b) July and (c) August 2010.

Answer: We have interpreted this question as asking about hard copy corporate subscriptions to journals and publications. The Department also purchases subscriptions for the Department for Transport under a shared service agreement.Identifying such subscriptions and any subscriptions purchased outside of the corporate agreement could be provided only at disproportionate cost.Ministers have made £15,000 a year of revenue savings by consolidating the seven sets of papers and periodicals that Ministers and special advisers were receiving. As outlined in my answer of 7 December 2010, Official Report, column 178W, significant savings have been made in relation to the wasteful and excessive spending on press cutting that Ministers inherited from the last Administration.The information requested has been deposited in the Library of the House.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 30782; 521 c196-7W
Session: 2010-12
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2011-0021
Monday, 10 January 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: Press Department for Communities and Local Government Subscriptions
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk