Departmental Report

HC Deb 13 June 2003 vol 406 cc324-5W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the cost was of the publication of the 2001 Departmental Report. [112810]

Ms Hewitt

The cost incurred by the department for design and artwork of the DTI's Expenditure Plans Report in 2001 was £35,006. This figure includes the costs incurred in placing an electronic version of the report on the Departmental website. Other costs of printing and publication were met directly by the publisher, The Stationery Office Limited (TSO), and did not fall to the Government. TSO recoups these costs through sales and uses its commercial judgment as to the number of copies printed.