Newspaper Circulation

HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 cc159-60W

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her answer of 18 July, ref. 70135, what information she has on the percentage of circulation that the five leading newspaper groups hold in(a) regional evening papers, (b) regional morning papers, (c) local weeklies and (d) local weekly freesheets.[72307]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The available information is as follows:

Company	Total sales or distribution per week (per cent.)	Daily or Sunday titles sales or distribution per week(per cent.)	Weekly titles sales or distribution per week (per cent.)
Trinity Mirror	24.0	24.3	23.6
DMGT	21.3	31.2	9.0
Gannett	14.1	8.7	20.7
Johnston Press	7.7	4.7	11.4
RIM	4.6	5.3	3.7
Total	71.7	74.2	68.4

Source:

Table 3.1 "Top 20 publishers of regional/local newspapers in the UK, 2001", from the Competition Commission's report "Johnston Press plc and Trinity Mirror plc: A report into the proposed merger", Cm 5495, May 2002. Since the data were compiled, Johnston Press has acquired RIM.