Departmental Expenditure (Newsprint)

HC Deb 30 January 2003 vol 398 cc973-4W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Solicitor General what the total expenditure of her Department was on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in 2002. [90526]

The Solicitor-General

[holding answer 16 January 2003]: The Departments for which I hold ministerial responsibility account for expenditure on these items differently. In particular, accounting for periodicals in Treasury Solicitor's Department include subscriptions to legal journals and updates on loose-leaf specialist legal publications.

The expenditure of my own Department, the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers, for the financial year 2001–02 was £3,335.30.

The total expenditure for the Crown Prosecution Service on newspapers, magazines and periodicals from January to December 2002 was £148,582.

The expenditure by the Serious Fraud Office for the financial year 2001–02 was £10,143.85.

The expenditure by the Treasury Solicitor's Department for the period April to December 2002 was £2,200 on newspapers and magazines and £112,175 on subscriptions—making a total of £114,375.

HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate for the same period was £3,350. This was on periodicals and professional journals; there was no expenditure on newspapers.