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1693001

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what reports and guidance their Department has produced in the last three financial years; and how much was spent on their (a) printing and (b) distribution.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	16484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. Reports and guidance that the Department has published can be found on Gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 12/03/2024 16:34:25 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1692804

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	16375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>(a) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cannot provide the budget information for Advertising as we do not allocate budget to this level of granularity.</p><p>(b) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spent £1,701 in 2020/21, £2,176 in 2021/22 and £11,892 in 2022/23 on Advertising costs.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/03/2024 11:56:39 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1692374

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Magazine Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much funding their Department (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	16190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not hold separate financial data on magazine subscriptions as we do not allocate budget to that level of granularity. Many decisions are made by the UK's 281 embassies and diplomatic posts overseas or by individual departments in the UK. As a result, comprehensive information on individual magazine purchasing across the organisation is not centrally recorded and disaggregating this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 06/03/2024 10:36:13 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691994

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not hold separate data on subscriptions. Many decisions are made by the UK's 281 embassies and diplomatic posts overseas or by individual departments in the UK. As a result, comprehensive information on individual titles is not centrally recorded and collating this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Efficiency savings are made on core titles by providing these centrally online as part of library services and by partnering with other Government Departments to obtain best value for money. These are reviewed annually. Over the last three financial years, the titles listed below have been supplied centrally through the FCDO Library.</p><p>The breadth of titles reflects the wide range of issues, events, and crises the FCDO's staff around the world need to keep track of to protect the UK's interests at home and overseas.</p><p>a] Newspapers</p><p>Bloomberg News; China Global South Project; The Daily Telegraph; The Economist; The Financial Times; Le Monde Diplomatique; The Local - Europe &amp; Sweden (from 2022); The New York Times; Nikkei Asia; Politico Pro; PressReader (over 6,000 titles from 130 countries); South China Morning Post (from 2022); The Times &amp; Sunday Times; The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.</p><p>b] Magazines</p><p>The New Statesman (from 2023) and The Spectator. Other titles are also available via PressReader.</p><p>c] Online Journals</p><p>Africa Confidential; Africa Intelligence (from 2023); Africa Report (from 2023); African Conflict &amp; Peacebuilding Review; American Economic Review; Annual Review of Economics; Arab Digest; British Medical Journal (to January 2022) Borderlex; Diplomat; Economic and Political Weekly; Elsevier/Science Direct (4,000 titles); European Council Studies (to December 2021); Intelligence Online (to September 2021); International Affairs; Jeune Afrique; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Democracy; Journal of Japanese Studies; Nature; Nature Climate Change; Nature Food (from 2023); Nature Geoscience (to January 2024); NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Paper Series; NK News; Prospect; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Science; Taylor Francis Package (2,500 titles); Wiley Social Science &amp; Humanities package (to January 2022); World Economics and World Politics; World Trade Online (to January 2022).</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 05/03/2024 10:17:45 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691401

registered interest
date	23/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The majority of FCDO IT is delivered through strategic commercial partners, as a managed service and it is not possible to breakdown the components that relate to support of legacy software. We continue to work with these suppliers to drive value for money in providing these services alongside ensuring we are aligning to advancements in technology.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 06/03/2024 17:21:01 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds