Press: Subscriptions
Energy and Climate Change
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much his Department spent on newspapers, periodicals and trade publications in the last 12 months.
Gregory Barker (Minister of State (Climate Change), Energy and Climate Change; Bexhill and Battle, Conservative)
The Department of Energy and Climate Change spent £24,000 on its electronic press cuttings service during the 12-month period ending September 2012. The equivalent expenditure for the period
The Department does not record expenditure on newspapers, periodicals and trade profession magazines separately from overall expenditure on publications which includes the cost of the Department's own publications as well as purchased publications of all types. It would incur disproportionate costs to scrutinise all publication transactions to identify relevant amounts.