During calendar year 2007, the following public information booklets were published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) centrally.
The following table shows the numbers of copies and the overall cost of the publication.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Directorate/Department Name of Publication Print Run Costs (£) Communication Directorate ‘FCO Departmental Report 2006’ 1,400 40,493 Communication Directorate ‘Your World’ 5,016 8,300 Communication Directorate ‘Stern Report Executive Summary’ English—8,500 66,075 French—1,250 Spanish—1,750 Portuguese—325 Czech—500 Slovak—500 Chinese (Traditional)—800 Hungarian—300 Japanese—1,000 Indonesian—1,000 Brazilian Portuguese—750 Communication Directorate ‘Muslims in Britain’ 3,000 3,028 Consular Directorate ‘Victims of Crime’ 10,000 2,206 Consular Directorate ‘International Child Abduction’ 10,000 1,385 Consular Directorate ‘Transfers Home’ 10,000 1,580 Consular Directorate ’Checklist for Travellers’ 4 million 36,200 Consular Directorate ‘Support for British Nationals (summary)’ 700,000 34,994 Consular Directorate ‘Child Abduction’ 10,000 1,350 Consular Directorate ‘Passport to Extreme Fun’ 20,000 4,944 Consular Directorate ‘Rape and Sexual Assault’ 10,000 2,100 European Union Directorate ‘Guide to the EU’—Welsh 1,000 2,439 Human Rights Department ‘Annual Report on Human Rights 2006’ 400 2,750
The FCOs overseas posts and its non-departmental public bodies also occasionally commission public information booklets, but details are not recorded centrally.
Information about the costs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.