§ Dr. CableTo ask the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many copies of the Department's and its predecessor Department's annual report were printed in each year since 1997; how many were sold in each year; and what the(a) publication costs and (b) sales revenue were. [183840]
§ Mr. LeslieThe information is set out in the table as follows. Costs of printing and publication are met directly by the publisher, TSO (The Stationery Office Limited) and do not fall to DCA. IR return the Publisher retains the revenues which they earn from sales and which are aimed at ensuring recovery of their costs. The Department's Annual Report is also available on the Department's website free of charge at www.dca. gov.uk/department/report2004/dca2004.pdf. Web visits to the report since April 2004 number approximately 1,022.
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Quantity printed
Quantity sold
(a) Publication
costs
1(£)(b) Sales
revenue
1997 The Stationery Office advise that statistics are no longer available.
1998 2, 3— 990 13,500 2— 1999 2— 1,045 8,715 2— 2000 2— 932 14,615 2— 2001 2— 1,079 12,100 2—
Quantity printed
Quantity sold (a) Publication
costs
1(£)(b) Sales
revenue
2002 2— 1,726 28,800 2— 2003 2— 1,576 20,460 2— 2004 2— 31,010 35,220 2— 1 Cost for design, photography, typesetting and web conversion. Does not include cost to purchase copies from TSO.
2 Not available from TSO. 3 Commercial-in-confidence to TSO. 4 Based on sales profile from previous years TSO expects to sell a further 100 copies in 2004.