Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which periodicals and newspapers his Department subscribes to; how many of each such periodical his Department acquires; and what the cost of subscribing to such periodicals was in 2014.

The amount spent on journal/periodical subscriptions in 2014 was £104,082 (down from £249,152 in 2009/10).

The specific titles are listed in the attached file. For the most part only one copy, or electronic access is acquired – where this is not the case the title is listed more than once.

We do not subscribe centrally to print newspapers.

The Department’s Knowledge Centre is responsible for central provision of library services – including newspapers, periodicals and trade publications. The figures above do not include expenditure on items for retention by individual divisions, responsibility for which was decentralised in April 2010. Details on this expenditure are not available.