HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 cc633-6W
Mr. Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is her estimate of her Department's expenditure on newspapers and magazines in(a) 1993–94, (b) 1994–95 and (c) 1995–96 to date; and if she will list the publications purchased for the latest year for which information is available. [11535]

Mr. Robin Squire

Detailed financial information is not held in the form requested. However, the following annexe lists newspaper and magazine publications currently purchased by the Department's library.

Annexe: Comprehensive list of newspaper/magazine (mainly weekly) titles obtained by the library

  • ABC Guide to International Travel
  • ABC Railway Guide
  • ABC World Airways Guide
  • Accountancy
  • Accountant
  • Architectural Review
  • Asian Times
  • Bookseller
  • British Journal of Photography
  • Building
  • Campaign
  • Caterer and Hotelkeeper
  • Catholic Herald
  • Child Education
  • Church Times
  • Construction News
  • Contract Journal
  • Cooks European Timetable
  • Daily Express
  • Daily Mirror
  • Daily Star
  • Daily Telegraph
  • Der Spiegel
  • Design
  • Economist
  • Education
  • Engineer
  • Engineering
  • European
  • Evening Standard
  • Financial Times
  • Gramophone
  • Guardian
  • Health Service Journal
  • History Today
  • Independent
  • Independent on Sunday
  • International Herald Tribune
  • Junior Education
  • L'Express
  • Lloyds List
  • Local Government Chronicle
  • Mail on Sunday
  • Management Today
  • Manchester Evening News
  • Marketing
  • Marketing Week
  • Media Week
  • Morning Advertiser
    • 634
  • Morning Star
  • Municipal Journal
  • Nature
  • New Law Journal
  • New Scientist
  • New Statesman
  • News of the World
  • Newsweek
  • Northern Echo
  • Nursing Times and Nursing Mirror
  • Observer
  • Le Point
  • Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor
  • PR Week
  • Printing World
  • Private Eye
  • Radio Times
  • Scientific American
  • Sheffield Star
  • Sheffield Telegraph
  • Spectator
  • Stage and Television Today
  • Sun
  • Sunday Express
  • Sunday Mirror
  • Sunday People
  • Sunday Telegraph
  • Sunday Times
  • Tablet
  • Time International
  • Time Magazine
  • Time Out
  • Times
  • Times Education Supplement
  • Times Higher Educational Supplement
  • Times Literary Supplement
  • Today
  • Tribune
  • TV Times
  • The Voice
  • UK Press Gazette
  • Universe
  • Die Zeit

Mr. Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is her estimate of expenditure on all forms of hospitality and entertainment by(a) her Department, (b) her Department's agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies, for (i) 1979–80, (ii) 1989–90, (iii) 1991–92, (iv) 1993–94, (v) 1994–95, (vi) 1995–96 and (vii) 1996–97. [11531]

Mr. Squire

The first year for which figures are readily available for the new Department and its agencies is 1993–94. Figures for earlier years could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The available outturn figures (rounded to the nearest £'000) are:

£ 000
1993–94 1994–95
DFEE 121 88
Agencies (Teachers' Pensions Agency and Employment Service) 36 11

Latest estimated outturn figures for 1995–96 are:

£'000
DFEE 85
Agencies (Teachers' Pensions Agency and Employment Service) 8

While overall administration budgets for 1996–97 have been settled, detailed budgets for individual activities, such as hospitality and entertainment, have not yet been finalised.

Information on expenditure on hospitality and entertainment by the Department's sponsored non-departmental public bodies is not available centrally.

Mr. Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is her estimate of the annual cost to her Department and her Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies of their empty and under-utilised properties for(a) 1979–80, (b) 1989–90,(c) 1991–92, (d) 1993–94, (e) 1994–95, (f) 1995–96 and (g) 1996–97. [11533]

Mr. Squire

Information is not held in the form that has been requested.

However, the Department for Education and Employment currently has 14 empty properties costing around £2.1 million per annum. Only marginal changes are expected in 1996–97. Figures for earlier years could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

For the Department's agencies, the Employment Service currently has 143 empty properties currently costing around £7 million per annum. Most of these have arisen from integrating benefit offices and jobcentres. Figures for earlier years could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. In the five years to March 1995, 840 properties were disposed of.

Information on the Department's non-departmental public bodies could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

For properties occupied by the Department but which currently form part of the common user estate, reference should be made to the answer provided by the Secretary of State for the Environment.

Mr. Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is her estimate of departmental expenditure on administration for(a) 1979–80, (b) 1989–90, (c) 1991–92, (d) 1993–94, (e) 1994–95, (f) 1995–96 and (g) 1996–97. [11532]

Mr. Squire

Details of the Department's expenditure on administration for the years 1989–90, 1991–92 and 1993–94 are contained in the annual reports of the former Employment Department and Department for Education, Cm 2805 for Employment and Cm 2810 for Education. The annual reports also show expenditure planned at the time of publication for 1995–96 and 1996–97. Expenditure for 1994–95 is included in the Department's published appropriation accounts. Expenditure for 1979–80 is contained in the Government's expenditure plans, Cm 9428-II. Copies of these documents are available in the Library.

Mr. Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is her estimate of the expenditure of her Department, her 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. [11534]

Mr. Squire

The information is as follows:

OVERSEAS TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER ASSOCIATED EXPENSES.

Expenditure by the Department

  1. (a) 1979–80: Figures are not available
  2. (b) 1989–90: Figures are not available
  3. (c) 1991–92: £792,290
  4. (d) 1993–94: £892,933
  5. (e) 1994–95: £842,917
  6. (f) 1995–96: £810,000 (estimate)
  7. (g) 1996–97: £810,000 (estimate)

For 1995–96 and earlier, the figures amalgamate the relevant expenditure of the former Department for Education and the former Department of Employment.

Expenditure by the Department's Agencies

Details of overseas travel by staff of the Employment Service are not separately recorded and could not be provided without disproportionate cost. Nil expenditure has been incurred, or is forecast to be incurred, by staff of the Teachers' Pensions Agency.

Expenditure by Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB) sponsored by the Department

Information about overseas travel costs for the Department's NDPBs is not available centrally.