§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department has spent on postage, and how many items have been posted by his Department, in each of the last five years.
§ Sir John Wheeler[holding answer 27 October 1994]: The amount spent on postage by the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments in the last five years is:
£ 1989–90 4,231,360 1990–91 4,884,984 1991–92 6,059,985 1992–93 6,387,424 1993–94 6,889,320 The Northern Ireland Office can provide information only for 1993–94. Computerised records are not held for the previous years and many of the manual records have been fire damaged.
No statistics are available on the number of items posted.