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77437

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date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Mass Media: Subscriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels her Department funds.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>DFID’s communications team subscribes to following magazines:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Economist: £136 per annum</p><p> </p><p>The Spectator: £129 per annum</p><p> </p><p>The New Statesman: £92 per annum</p><p> </p><p>The New Scientist: £149 per annum</p><p> </p><p>Private Eye: £28 per annum</p><p> </p><p>Marketing Magazine: £155 per annum</p><p> </p><p>PR Week: £99.50 per annum</p><p> </p><p>PR Week Global: £119.50 per annum</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A figure for magazine subscriptions across the entire Department cannot be compiled from our accounting records without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Television channels are paid for via the Parliamentary feed. DFID pays £6,728.90 each year for maintenance of the Parliamentary TV system and £13,500 a year for rental of the telecomms link from 22 Whitehall to the Palace of Westminster.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 21/07/2014 11:37:16 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77438

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many awaydays her Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Away days for Department for International Development (DFID) staff are overwhelmingly undertaken on DFID or Other Government Department premises where there is little or no cost involved.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of DFID officials attending away days and the costs incurred is not held centrally and precise information is not readily available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 21/07/2014 11:32:32 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77439

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) her and (ii) Ministers in her Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID operates a decentralised Learning and Development system and does not hold central records of course attendance or small scale expenditure. DFID publishes all expenditure over £500, which can be found on our website http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-us/How-we-measure-progress/DFID-spend/. Producing any other type of report would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 17/07/2014 14:27:05 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77440

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's policy is on alcohol consumption on the premises (a) in general and (b) during parties in her Private Office.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer Hon. Member to the answer provided today by my Rt Hon. Friend the member for Horsham (Mr Maude).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 17/07/2014 14:35:56 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77441

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts (a) her Department and (b) its non-departmental public body (i) have let and (ii) plan to let that are worth (A) between £1 million and £3 million and (B) over £3 million since 2010; how much her Department has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in her Department monitor each contract.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Under this Government’s transparency programme, contracts and future contract pipeline information is published on Contracts Finder which is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The cost and number of officials required to monitor each contract undertaken by my department is specific to each individual contract.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 21/07/2014 11:39:23 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett