To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much his Department's agencies spent on (a) Christmas cards and (b) postage of Christmas cards in each year since 1997. (182446)

The information requested is as follows:

UK Trade and Investment

(a) The following has been spent on Christmas cards:

Figures from 1997 to 2004 are not available.

(b) There is no separate record of postage costs for sending paper cards in 2005 or 2006.

Companies House

(a) The following has been spent on Christmas cards:

Figures from 1997 to 2001 are not available.

(b) The amount spent on postage of Christmas cards is not kept as a separate record.

The Insolvency Service has not sent any Christmas cards.