§ Mr. David Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the weekly or monthly magazines or journals which are published by Government Departments, showing the circulation and profit or loss made by each.
§ Mr. TaverneThe details are given below. The "profit" or "loss" figures, which relate only to sale copies, are based
Circulation Title Official Sale Annual Profit Annual Loss Weekly £ £ House of Commons Hansard, Weekly Edition 1,300 1,500 The loss for all issues of Debates in 1967–68 including daily parts, volumes and Select Committee Debates was £207,000 House of Commons Hansard, Weekly Index 900 675 House of Lords Hansard, Weekly Edition 725 275 House of Lords Hansard, Weekly Index 425 225 Board of Trade Journal 3,200 9,000 15,600 Registrar General's Weekly Return of Births, Deaths and Marriages (England and Wales). 1,336 64 These are priced on scales which cover also many other publications which are designed, overall, to make neither a profit nor a loss. Registrar General's Weekly Return of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland). 320 86 Monthly Agriculture 400 11,100 425 Building Research Station Digests 34,400 19,100 240 Building Science Abstracts 235 1,315 32 Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Work 2,140 1,485 173 Economic Trends 2,336 553 375 Employment and Productivity Gazette 7,350 3,400 400 Financial Statistics 420 992 220 Hospital Abstracts 135 1,240 — — Meteorological Magazine 800 1,200 100 National Lending Library Translations Bulletin 100 950 350 Overseas Trade Accounts of the United Kingdom 50 1,780 2,000 Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette 350 975 75 Registry of Ships (Supplements) 312 290 200 Report on Overseas Trade 740 210 50 Signal Letters of United Kingdom and Commonwealth Ships (Supplements) 2,125 146 7 Soldier 1,000 41,000 14,700 Monthly Digest of Statistics 1,348 4,177 50 Monthly List of Statutory Instruments 480 1,645 1,900 Water Pollution Abstracts 155 1,580 50 Weather Report 1,050 450 60