§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister for the Civil Service what is the approximate percentage of the costs of the Parliamentary Press in the latest convenient year, taken by each of the following or similar categories of activities, showing where the appropriate split between setting and printing costs: general overheads and management, Official Report of the Lords and Commons, respectively, in each of the editions, Official Report of Standing Committees, Papers and Reports of Select Committees, items in the Vote Bundle and miscellaneous items.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe total budgeted cost of St. Stephen's Parliamentary Press for the year 1976–77 was £6 million and the actual costs are not114W expected to vary greatly from this figure. The cost of the following items expressed as a percentage of that production cost were as follows:
per cent. Official Report of Commons (Daily Parts) 19 Official Report of Commons Weekly etc 11 Official Report of Standing Committees (the bulk of this work is produced by commercial contractors) 2 Papers for Select Committees 9 The Vote Bundle 24 Bills and Acts 11 Miscellaneous Parliamentary items 4 Total Parliamentary work 80 The split between various elements of costs will vary between one job and the next, but overall the following allocations comprised the Budget for 1976–77:
per cent. Industrial wages 66 Non-industrial wages 10 General overheads 24 The cost of setting as compared with the other production departments was:
per cent. Setting 50 Platemaking 3 Machine 25 Finishing 22 The Official Report of the Lords was produced by a commercial printer.