§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list his Department's spending on official publications since May 1997. [93678]
§ Mr. PrescottThe spending on official publications since May 1997, which includes the costs incurred by the department in publishing, preparation, production and purchase of copies for official use, was £5,897,683. Where the Department makes use of a private sector publisher, the publishing, printing and design costs are generally met by the publisher as part of their acceptance of the risks of publication.
§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the titles of the in-house publications and newsletters which were produced for the staff of his Department, excluding non-departmental public bodies and agencies, in the last five years, specifying the dates on which each title was first produced, the frequency with which each title is produced and the current secrecy classification of each title. [93843]
§ Ms Beverley HughesA list of corporate internal publications produced by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions since immediately before its creation in June 1997 has been placed in the Library. The Department's policy has been to rationalise the number of regular staff newsletters and magazines to improve communication and save money; periodic publications that have been incorporated into others have been marked with an asterisk.
Information about the former departments of the Environment and Transport before April 1997 is not readily available and could be gathered only at disproportionate expense.