Departmental Stationery

Bob Spink
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on the purchase of (a) recycled office supplies in the last 12 months and (b) printer ink cartridges in each of the last five years.

Mr. Woolas
The information is as follows.

(a) All available information for the last 12 months is set out as follows:

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|Product type                               |Cost (£)|
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|Paper products April 2008-March 2009       |644,000 |
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|General stationery June 2008-April 2009    |137,716 |
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|Computer consumables June 2008-January 2009|611,333 |
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(b) The requested information is not held centrally in the Home Office and cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.