HC Deb 11 May 1994 vol 243 cc160-1W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 12 April,Official Report, column 82, if the cost given for withdrawing the Health Education Authority's pocket guide to sex included the cost of (a) commissioning, (b) printing, (c) distributing and (d) promoting the guide; and if she will break down the figure into its components.

Dr. Mawhinney

The estimated costs of withdrawing the guide totalled almost £17,000. This figure represents:

£
Commissioning 4,500
Printing 9,000
Distributing 1,200
Recalling 2,000

There were no promotion costs as space reserved for advertising was used for other existing Health Education Authority material.

These costs will stand to be offset, at least in part, by financial compensation accruing to the HEA from the reversion of publishing rights to the author under a confidential agreement.