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.
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.