Departmental Annual Report

HC Deb 21 July 2004 vol 424 cc305-6W

Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many copies of his Department's and predecessor Department's annual report were printed in each year since 1997; how many were sold in each year; and what the(a) publication cost and (b) sales revenue were. [183882]

Mrs. McGuire

The Scotland Office was established on 1 July 1999.

The Scotland Office has had 150 copies of its Annual Report printed each year since 1999. The report is also available on the Office's website.

The printing costs to the Scotland Office were as follows:

	£
1999–2000	1,020
2000–01	3,160
2001–02	3,869
2002–03	4,036
2003–04	4,119

Other costs of printing and publication of the report are 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. The numbers sold and the revenue from sales are matters for the publisher.