§ Mr. SpringTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many copies of the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty have been purchased by(a) Government bodies and (b) others. [140802]
§ Mr. MacShaneIn August 2003 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Command Paper 5897 The `Draft Constitutional Treaty on the European Union', which included a full copy of the text, was published by the Stationery Office. 53 copies of the paper were subsequently purchased by the FCO; some of which were forwarded to other Government Departments. In total 729 copies have been sold by the Stationery Office.
Copies of the draft Treaty are also available free of charge from the European Commission.