Departmental Stationery
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 20 April 2009
David Ruffley (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Bury St Edmunds, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on (a) branded and (b) non-branded stationery in 2008-09.
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (also in the Home Office), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour)
From best available information, the total expenditure in FY 2008-09 by the Home Department for both (a) branded stationery and (b) non-branded stationery was £3,011,000.
To separate stationery expenditure between (a) branded and (b) non-branded items would involve manually reprocessing source records and could be done only at disproportionate cost.