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1691993

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals her Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has paid for subscriptions to the following publications in the last three financial years:</p><p>- print editions of all national daily newspapers together with online editions of the Telegraph, Times and Financial Times;</p><p>- The New Statesman;</p><p>- The Spectator;</p><p>- Economist Nursing Times;</p><p>- Private Eye;</p><p>- The Voice;</p><p>- Health Service Journal;</p><p>- GP Online;</p><p>- Pulse;</p><p>- Health Policy Insight;</p><p>- New England Journal of Medicine;</p><p>- Journal of American Medicine;</p><p>- Nature;</p><p>- Bloomberg;</p><p>- PR Week; and</p><p>- I News.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of the subscriptions totalled approximately £7,700 per year in financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 and precisely £7718.08 in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 05/03/2024 17:01:05 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
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

1691995

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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	15961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>HMT’s expenditure on these areas is published as part of the departments on-going support of the transparency reporting programme. These can be viewed using the links below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-spend</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 05/03/2024 10:14:44 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691996

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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	15962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>To answer for the whole department would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Newspapers and magazines that communications directorate and private office have subscribed to in the last three financial years are listed below.</p><p>a) Newspapers:</p><p>The Daily Express<br> The Daily Mail<br> The Daily Mirror<br> The Daily Telegraph<br> The Financial Times and FT.Com<br> The Guardian<br> The Sun<br> The Times<br> Sunday Times online</p><p>b) Magazines:</p><p>Campaign Magazine<br> Harvard Business Review <br> PR Week online<br> Private Eye<br> Spectator<br> The Economist<br> The New Statesman</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/03/2024 16:19:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691997

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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	15963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Some information is available for the Directorate of Defence Communications (DDC) as the lead branch for communications within the Ministry of Defence. The total DDC spend for online and hard copy Newspapers for the last financial year is £12,500. Further information cannot be provided as it cannot be separated out from other expenditure nor is it readily available for previous financial years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/03/2024 14:16:56 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds