Skip to main content

Departmental Press

Volume 495: debated on Tuesday 7 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) newspapers and (b) periodicals are delivered to the private office of each Minister in his Department; and at what cost in the latest period for which figures are available. (279420)

All information is for the last financial year (April 2008 to March 2009).

(a) The then Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Salford (Hazel Blears) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Independent

The Daily Express

The Financial Times

The Daily Telegraph

The Evening Standard (West End Final Extra)

The Evening Standard (West End Final)

The Evening Standard (1st Edition)

The Eastern Eye

The Daily Jang

The Jewish Chronicle

The Voice

New Nation

International Herald Tribune

Muslim Weekly

The then Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Salford (Hazel Blears) received the following periodicals:

The Economist

The Spectator

The New Statesman

Prospect

The Municipal Journal

The Local Government Chronicle

The London Review of Books

Tribune

The Times Literary Supplement

The then Minister for Housing, the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Margaret Beckett) and her predecessor the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Independent

The Daily Express

The Financial Times

The Daily Telegraph

The Evening Standard (West End Final)

Yorkshire Post

The then Minister for Housing, the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Margaret Beckett) and her predecessor the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) received the following periodicals

The Economist

The Spectator

The New Statesman

The then Minister for Local Government, the right hon. Member for Wentworth (John Healey) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Financial Times

The Evening Standard (West End Final)

Yorkshire Post

The then Minister for Local Government, the right hon. Member for Wentworth (John Healey) received the following periodicals:

The Economist

The Spectator

The New Statesman

The Municipal Journal

The Local Government Chronicle

Tribune

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (the noble Baroness Lady Andrews) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Independent

The Daily Express

The Financial Times

The Daily Telegraph

The Evening Standard (1st Edition)

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (the noble Baroness Lady Andrews) received the following periodicals:

The Economist

The Spectator

The New Statesman

Prospect

The Local Government Chronicle

Regeneration and Renewal

Planning Magazine

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Tooting (Mr. Khan) and his predecessor the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Dhanda) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Daily Telegraph

The Evening Standard (West End Final Extra)

The Evening Standard (1st Edition)

The Eastern Eye

The Daily Jang

The Jewish Chronicle

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Tooting (Mr. Khan) and his predecessor the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Dhanda) received the following periodicals:

The New Statesman

The Municipal Journal

The Local Government Chronicle

Building

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) received the following newspapers:

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mirror

The Guardian

The Times

The Sun

The Independent

The Financial Times

The Daily Telegraph

The Evening Standard (1st Edition)

The German Times (complimentary copy)

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) received the following periodicals:

The Economist

Municipal Journal

(b) The total costs recorded by the Department for newspapers and periodicals for all ministerial offices in the last financial year was £7,184.85.