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Newspaper Licensing Agency

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Solicitor-General what payments the Law Officers' Department made to the Newspaper Licensing Agency in each of the last 10 years. (315589)

Payments made by Law Officers' Departments to the Newspapers Licensing Agency are contained in the following table.

Payments (£)

2000

6,789.47

2001

10,242.39

2002

369.00

2003

8819.4

2004

13,844.12

2005

19,869.02

2006

20,233.83

2007

14,772.98

2008

22,0187.1

2009

26,975.88

Notes:

1. The table shows direct payments to the NLA. Some Law Officers' Departments also pay a fee to the NLA via their cuttings agencies, which act as a collection agency for the licence fees associated with the hard copy cuts provided. It is not possible to quantify these payments over the period requested due to disproportionate cost.

2. The CPS has no record of payment in 2002. It is not possible to provide an explanation for this due to passage of time.

3. Payments in 2008 and 2009 included indemnity payments for previous unlicensed copying or electronic access at the RCPO and AGO respectively.