§ Lord Lamont of Lerwickasked the Chairman of Committees:
How many copies of the Evening Standard are bought each day for the House of Lords Library; how this compares with The Times, the Daily Mail and the Guardian; and what is the annual cost of the copies of the Evening Standard. [HL4058]
§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Tordoff)On a sitting day, 74 copies of the different editions of theEvening Standard, 21 copies of The Times, 14 copies of the Daily Mail and 12 copies of the Guardian are bought for the House of Lords Library. The numbers of copies of each title purchased are reduced on non-sitting and recess days. During the financial year 2001–02, Library expenditure on copies of the Evening Standard amounted to £4,048.25.