Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Newspaper Press

(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on purchasing (a) national newspapers and (b) newspaper online subscriptions since 2016; and how many copies of each national newspaper were purchased in that time period.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 5th September 2019

Year

2018/19

2017/18

2016/17

Spending on Newspapers (£)

15533. 41

7298.92

710.95

Figures on the number of individual copies purchased is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

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