HC Deb 04 February 2002 vol 379 cc640-2W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what her estimate is of the expenditure of her Department on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in each of the last four years. [30092]

Ms Hewitt

My Department's expenditure on newspapers, magazines and periodicals for the years requested was as follows:

£
1997–98 518,700
1998–99 647,233
1999–2000 581,044
2000–01 626,862

This includes expenditure on national daily and Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers, mass circulation magazines and journals, and academic periodicals. It also

Date Event Town Number of firms Support (£)
September 1997 ASIS St. Louis 7 21,310
September 1997 IDEF Ankara 8 67,850
September 1997 Sitech Berlin Berlin 8 16,110
November 1997 A+A Düsseldorf 17 33,078
March 1998 Securex South Africa Johannesburg 12 23,973
April 1998 MIPS Moscow 14 48,049
April 1998 DSA Kuala Lumpur 34 214,682
May 1998 CBW Protection Stockholm 14 33,862
June 1998 Eurosatory Paris 20 92,246
October 1998 Security Essen Essen 38 46,926
November 1998 Fire Asia Hong Kong 30 98,728
February 1999 Shot Show Atlanta 16 38,325
March 1999 Securex South Africa Johannesburg 10 17,627
March 1999 ISC Expo/Las Vegas Las Vegas 8 31,650
March 1999 IDEX UAE Abu Dhabi 35 240,792
March 1999 Securex Poland Poznan 12 1,000
April 1999 LAD—Latin America Defentech Rio de Janeiro 24 73,442
October 1999 Security Asia Singapore 16 57,679
October 1999 Sitech Berlin Berlin 8 14,574
November 1999 Exposec São Paulo 7 30,648
November 1999 Milipol—France Paris 15 31,935
January 2000 Intersec Dubai 28 53,914
February 2000 Securex Poland Poznan 10 25,651
March 2000 ISC Expo/Las Vegas Las Vegas 7 18,400
June 2000 Securitex—Hong Kong Hong Kong 12 39,084
June 2000 Eurosatory Paris 25 45,189
June 2000 Interschutz Augsburg 36 75,798
July 2000 Copex—Asia Singapore 10 21,578
July 2000 ASE Miami 7 17,294
October 2000 Security Essen Essen 37 64,052
October 2000 Euronaval Paris 26 54,870
November 2000 Expoprotection Paris 32 52,347
November 2000 Exposec São Paulo 7 30,167
January 2001 Intersec Dubai 25 62,100
February 2001 Securex South Africa Johannesburg 9 32,486
March 2001 IWA Nuremberg 18 23,208
April 2001 MIPS Moscow 6 17,751
April 2001 LAD—Latin America Defentech Rio de Janeiro 18 61,466
May 2001 Imdex Asia Singapore 38 78,896
June 2001 CBW Protection Stockholm 14 36,684
July 2001 ASE Miami 10 27,087
November 2001 Exposec São Paulo 9 37,300
November 2001 Milipol—France Paris 16 39,541
November 2001 Security Asia Singapore 12 32,200
January 2002 Intersec Dubai 25 62,100

The Provision of the Data Protection Act preclude the release of information about individual firms.

includes expenditure on annual publications, in particular reference works that would not normally be considered as periodicals. It is not possible to exclude such annual publications from the figures, except at disproportionate cost.