To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether mechanisms are in place to monitor the extent to which his Department's (a) internal and (b) external (i) correspondence and (ii) distribution of publications is carried out electronically. (199185)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) does not have a central mechanism in place to monitor the extent to which the FCO's internal and external correspondence and distribution of publications is carried out electronically.

To retrieve and collate the information needed from all of the departments within the FCO, and all overseas posts, would incur disproportionate cost.