To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department has spent on branded stationery and gifts for (a) internal and (b) external promotional use in each of the last five years. (273777)

Communities and Local Government Department was established in May 2006. Since that time the Department has spent the following on branded stationery:

For information relating to the amount spent on promotional materials for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister between 2002 and the abolition of the Department in 2006, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 25 October 2006, Official Report, column 1934W.

Since the establishment of the Department for Communities and Local Government the costs of gifts for internal and external promotion are not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.