To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on (a) branded and (b) non-branded stationery in 2008-09. (269686)

From best available information, the total expenditure in FY 2008-09 by the Home Department for both (a) branded stationery and (b) non-branded stationery was £3,011,000.

To separate stationery expenditure between (a) branded and (b) non-branded items would involve manually reprocessing source records and could be done only at disproportionate cost.