Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.

The attached spreadsheet provides detailed spend on journals and magazines at DWP for the last three years. Journals are in digital format apart from one print title – Vachers.

A small number of print journals are provided to ministers and press office along with hardcopy newspapers. The costs of these journals are estimated as they are included in the monthly invoices for newspapers.