§ Mr. MullinTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her answer of 18 July, ref. 70135, what information she has on the percentage of circulation that the five leading newspaper groups hold in(a) regional evening papers, (b) regional morning papers, (c) local weeklies and (d) local weekly freesheets.[72307]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe available information is as follows:
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Company Total sales or distribution per week (per cent.) Daily or Sunday titles sales or distribution per week(per cent.) Weekly titles sales or distribution per week (per cent.) Trinity Mirror 24.0 24.3 23.6 DMGT 21.3 31.2 9.0 Gannett 14.1 8.7 20.7 Johnston Press 7.7 4.7 11.4 RIM 4.6 5.3 3.7 Total 71.7 74.2 68.4 Source:
Table 3.1 "Top 20 publishers of regional/local newspapers in the UK, 2001", from the Competition Commission's report "Johnston Press plc and Trinity Mirror plc: A report into the proposed merger", Cm 5495, May 2002. Since the data were compiled, Johnston Press has acquired RIM.