Written question asked by Lord Cotter (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 4 November 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 November 2003. It was answered by Patricia Hewitt (Labour) on Monday, 10 November 2003 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many guidance booklets produced by her Department are only accessible via the internet; and if she will make a statement. - Inc figures.

Answer: Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many guidance booklets produced by her Department are only accessible via the internet; and if she will make a statement. [137303] Ms Hewitt: I have understood a guidance booklet to be a publication produced by my Department to give information to the general public. To distinguish the guidance booklets from other DTI publications could be done only at disproportionate cost. Of 3,306 publications currently available, and notified to my Department's Publications Unit, 847 (25.6 per cent.) are accessible only via the internet. These include publications previously available in hard copy but now out of print.

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