Innovation, Universities and Skills written question – answered on 26 November 2008.
Philip Hammond
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much his Department has spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c) stereo equipment since its creation; and how much his Department's agency spent on such equipment in each of the last three years.
Siôn Simon
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills was created as a result of machinery of government changes in June 2007. Information on expenditure prior to 2007-08 is not held in this Department.
Details of expenditure on the following items by DIUS and its agencies, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO), are:
| Flat screen TVs | DVD Players | Stereo equipment | |
| DIUS | (1)31,257 | 0 | 0 |
| NWML | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UK-IPO | |||
| 2006-07 | 6,038 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007-08 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-09 | 660 | 0 | 0 |
| (1 )Leased for over five years. | |||
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