§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list(a) the total number of publications issued by her Department each year since 1997, (b) how many of each were printed and (c) the total cost of each publication.[126448]
§ Clare ShortAs part of our commitment to openness, as well as to raising awareness and understanding of development issues, we now make publicly available all our strategy documents, including all country and
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Zimbabwe project completion reports received since 1 May 1997 Project title Overall achievement Small-scale Irrigation Using Wells, Pilot Project Very good Zimbabwe Forestry Research and Institution Strengthening Project Satisfactory ATP Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO)—completed February 1996 Poor Insect Pest Management Project Satisfactory Wildlife Disease Epidemiology, Phase II Project Satisfactory National Measles Immunisation Days 1998 Project Satisfactory ATP: Supply of 300 Land Rovers1—completed June 1997 Very good institutional strategy papers, as well as all major consultation papers and speeches. Our publishing output has therefore expanded considerably.
Due to the disproportionate cost involved we are not able to provide the full level of details requested. However within the main categories we have produced:
- 36 x Country Strategy Papers
- 10 x Institutional Strategy Papers
- 8 x Consultation Papers
- 4 x Background briefings
- 18 x Speech booklets
- 10 x Issues of Development magazine.
We also produced this year a publications catalogue which lists the majority of departmental publications produced since 1997, together with information on how to obtain copies. A copy of the catalogue has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Costs and print runs vary from a typical strategy paper (1,500 copies costing approximately £1,500) to Developments magazine (60,000 copies costing approximately £40,000 per issue, including distribution).