HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 cc741-3W
Mr. Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of his Department's expenditure on newspapers and magazines in(a) 1993–94, (b) 1994–95 and (c) 1995–96 to date; and if he will list the publications purchased for the latest year for which information is available. [11530]

Mr. Burt

The available information on expenditure is in the table. In addition, local offices of the Department's agencies may subscribe to local or specialist publications, details of which are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Expenditure on weekly/daily journals and newspapers recorded centrally by the Department and its agencies is as follows:

Year Amount £
1993–94 25,707
1994–95 29,041
1995–96 (up to end of December 1995) 23,451

Publications currently purchased include:

  • Accountancy Age
  • Benchmarking
  • Blesmag
  • Campaign
  • Caterer and Hotel Keeper
  • Certified Accounting
  • Community Care
  • Computer Weekly
  • Consult
  • Customer Service Manager
  • Daily Mail
  • Daily Telegraph
  • Daily Express
  • Daily Mirror
  • Daily Record
  • Daily Star
  • Economist
  • Euromoney
  • European
  • Evening Chronicle
  • Evening Standard
  • Financial Times
  • Gee's Pay Monthly
  • Guardian
  • Handelblatt
  • Health Service Journal
  • Independent
  • Internet
  • Investors Chronicle
  • IR Tax Bulletin
  • Le Monde
  • Mail on Sunday
  • Management Accounting
  • Managing Service Quality
  • Money Marketing
  • Morning Star
  • Nature
  • New Scientist
  • New Statesman
  • New of the World
  • Northern Echo
  • Nursing Times
  • Observer
  • Pay Advice
    • 743
  • Payroll Managers Review
  • Payroll News
  • Pensions Management
  • PR Weekly
  • Private Eye
  • Scotland on Sunday
  • Spectator
  • Sun
  • Sunday People
  • Sunday Telegraph
  • Sunday Express
  • Sunday Sun
  • Sunday Mirror
  • Tax Journal
  • Taxation Practitioner
  • The Journal
  • The Bullet Point
  • The Big Issue
  • The Herald
  • Times
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Watsons
  • Weekly Guardian
  • West Lancashire Evening Gazette
  • Word Processing
  • Word Perfect

Mr. Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the expenditure of his Department, his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies on all forms of overseas travel, overseas accommodation and other associated expenses for(a) 1979–80, (b) 1989–90, (c) 1991–92, (d) 1993–94, (e) 1994–95, (f) 1995–96 and (g) 1996–97. [11529]

Mr. Burt

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.

1989–90 £ 1991–92 £ 1993–94 £ 1994–95 £ 11995–96 £
Department 25,477 54,036 38,525 40,492 19,313
Agencies 163 37,898 125,944 86,647 86,925
Non-departmental public bodies2 — — — — 400
1Estimated outturn.
2Prior to 1995–96 NDPB figures are subsumed within category (a).

No information is available for 1979–80 and NDPB expenditure is not separately identifiable before 1995–96. However, because DSS NDPBs are on-Vote NDPBs, their expenditure is subsumed within the Departmental figures provided.