HC Deb 10 January 1995 vol 252 c67W
Mr. Donohoe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much has been spent on telephone charges and how many telephone calls have been made by his Department for each of the last five years.

Mr. Lang

The information on telephone charges for calls made via both the public service telephone network and the government telephone network by all Scottish Office Departments is set out in the table.

Public service telephone network £ Government telephone network £ Total £
1989–90 645,000 339,000 984,000
1990–91 615,000 343,000 958,000
1991–92 675,000 352,000 1,027,000
1992–93 755,000 366,000 1,121,000
1993–94 695,000 343,000 1,038,000

As call charges are levied by the volume of units used and not by the number of calls made, records on total numbers of calls are not maintained.