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Departmental Publications

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what public information booklets were published by his Department in 2007; and what the (a) print run and (b) cost to the Department was in each case. (185791)

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.