To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the cost of his Department's contracts with press monitoring services was in each of the last five years. (251217)

The Wales Office has spent the following amounts on media monitoring with the companies listed:

COI

2006-07: £8,401

2007-08: £11,045

Meltwater News UK Ltd.

2006-07: £4,136

2007-08: £3,309

TNS Media Intelligence

2005-06: £6,650

2006-07: £9,868

2007-08: £13,700.

We do not hold records in this form before 2006-07.