Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels her Department funds.

DFID’s communications team subscribes to following magazines:

The Economist: £136 per annum

The Spectator: £129 per annum

The New Statesman: £92 per annum

The New Scientist: £149 per annum

Private Eye: £28 per annum

Marketing Magazine: £155 per annum

PR Week: £99.50 per annum

PR Week Global: £119.50 per annum

A figure for magazine subscriptions across the entire Department cannot be compiled from our accounting records without incurring disproportionate cost.

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.