§ Mr. Mark HobanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost was of printing departmental(a) Green and (b) White Papers in each year since 1997; and how many of each of those papers were printed. [94919]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe costs of printing Green and White Papers are met by the publishers, The Stationery Office (TSO). Information relating to these costs, and the number of copies printed is not disclosed under Exemption 13 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. An exception to this was the recent White Paper "The Future of Higher Education". Due to extremely tight production schedules, it was agreed with TSO that the Department would manage the print process and meet printing costs, providing TSO with copies for their commercial outlets.
The costs of printing 16,000 copies of "The Future of Higher Education" was £48,600.