Departmental Press
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 7 July 2009
Philip Hammond (Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury; Runnymede & Weybridge, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) newspapers and (b) periodicals are delivered to the private office of each Minister in his Department; and at what cost in the latest period for which figures are available.
Shahid Malik (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Dewsbury, Labour)
All information is for the last financial year (April 2008 to March 2009).
(a) The then Secretary of State, Hazel Blears received the following newspapers:
The Evening Standard (West End Final Extra)
The Evening Standard (West End Final)
The Evening Standard (1( st) Edition)
The Eastern Eye
The Daily Jang
Muslim Weekly
The then Secretary of State, Hazel Blears received the following periodicals:
Prospect
The Municipal Journal
The Local Government Chronicle
Tribune
The Times Literary Supplement
The then Minister for Housing, Margaret Beckett and her predecessor Caroline Flint received the following newspapers:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
The Guardian
The Times
The Sun
The Independent
The Daily Express
The Financial Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Evening Standard (West End Final)
The then Minister for Housing, Margaret Beckett and her predecessor Caroline Flint received the following periodicals
The Economist
The Spectator
The New Statesman
The then Minister for Local Government, John Healey received the following newspapers:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
The Guardian
The Times
The Sun
The Financial Times
The Evening Standard (West End Final)
Yorkshire Post
The then Minister for Local Government, John Healey received the following periodicals:
The Economist
The Spectator
The New Statesman
The Municipal Journal
The Local Government Chronicle
Tribune
The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (the noble Baroness Lady Andrews) received the following newspapers:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
The Guardian
The Times
The Sun
The Independent
The Daily Express
The Financial Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Evening Standard (1( st) Edition)
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (the noble Baroness Lady Andrews) received the following periodicals:
The Economist
The Spectator
The New Statesman
Prospect
The Local Government Chronicle
Regeneration and Renewal
The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Khan and his predecessor Mr. Dhanda received the following newspapers:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
The Guardian
The Times
The Sun
The Daily Telegraph
The Evening Standard (West End Final Extra)
The Evening Standard (1( st) Edition)
The Eastern Eye
The Daily Jang
The Jewish Chronicle
The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Khan and his predecessor Mr. Dhanda received the following periodicals:
The New Statesman
The Municipal Journal
The Local Government Chronicle
Building
The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Wright received the following newspapers:
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
The Guardian
The Times
The Sun
The Independent
The Financial Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Evening Standard (1( st) Edition)
The German Times (complimentary copy)
The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Wright received the following periodicals:
The Economist
Municipal Journal
(b) The total costs recorded by the Department for newspapers and periodicals for all ministerial offices in the last financial year was £7,184.85.