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Departmental Press

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in each year since 1997. (261176)

Centrally managed expenditure on newspapers, magazines and periodicals since 2004 is listed in the following table. These publications are increasingly taken in electronic rather than printed versions. Figures for earlier years could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.

Centrally managed expenditure on newspapers, magazines and periodicals

£

2004-05

135,887

2005-06

142,015

2006-07

88,290

2007-08

112,203

2008-09

171,751.20

1 Spend to date