§ Mr. KaufmanTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will set out for each of the next steps agencies in his Department, whether they have acquired their own headquarters buildings and, if so, at what purchase cost or annual rental; how many support staff they have required which were not required when their operations were within his Department; how many of them published periodical journals and at what annual cost; how many have fleets of executive cars or single executive cars and at what annual cost; how many have specially designed logos and at what cost; how many have corporate clothing and at what cost; and what is the cost of specially designed and printed corporate stationery.
§ Mr. Waldegrave[pursuant to his reply, 26 January 1995, c. 358–61]: The letter to the right hon. Member from the chief executive of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate stated that he would write to the right hon. Member when the information on the cost of the VMD logo was available.
I understand that the VMD has now written to the right hon. Member. The text of the letter is as follows:
Letter from C. J. Lawson to Gerald Kaufman, dared 27 January 1995:
I am now able to let you have the information about the costs incurred in the design of the Directorate logo, which was not available when I wrote to you on 24 January.The design costs were £360 + VAT.I am very sorry that I could not let you have this in my original letter and regret any inconvenience that may have been caused.