§ Norman LambTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much producing his Department's latest annual report cost; how many copies were printed; how many copies of it were sold at its cover price; to whom copies of the report have been provided free of charge; and how many copies were provided free of charge. [100817]
§ Mr. Paul MurphyThe Northern Ireland Office Departmental Report 2002 was produced by The Stationery Office (TSO). Costs of printing and publication are met directly by TSO and do not fall to Government. My Department was invoiced only for the 200 copies it requested.
600 copies were printed and TSO's records show that 382 copies have been sold at its cover price of £25.
313WCopies of the Report were provided free of charge to 156 interested parties. A table of those interested parties follows.
Distribution of the NIO departmental report 2002 Recipient Number of copies Secretary of State, Ministers, Senior NIO Officials 18 Heads of NIO Agencies and Legal Offices 5 Parliament House of Commons Library 12 NIO Information Offices Belfast and London 9 HM Treasury 3 First Minister, Deputy First Minister, NI Assembly and OFM/DFM 25 Scottish and Welsh Offices 2 Head of NICS &NI Permanent Secretaries 11 NI MP's 18 Other interested MP's 3 1MEP 1 Members of the House of Lords with an interest in NI 25 Treasury Select Committee 14 NI Select Committee 14 TOTAL 156 In the Northern Ireland Administration five departments to date have produced Annual Reports or Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year 2001–02. Details of the cost of producing these reports could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. A total of 4,050 copies have been printed, of which 656 have been sold at their cover price and approximately 2,000 copies have been provided free of charge to a range of bodies.