§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the magazines and periodicals subscribed to by her Department, stating for each subscription the(a) number of copies taken and (b) annual cost. [52822]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 26 April 2002]: DEFRA has 1,376 subscriptions which are centrally managed, the annual cost of the centralised subscriptions is £75,816.89.
There may be local magazine and periodical subscription arrangements for agencies and decentralised budget holders.
To list the magazines and periodicals and obtain details of the decentralised expenditure for these subscriptions could only be done at a disproportionate cost.