Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels her Department funds.
Answered by Karen Bradley
a) The Library Service subscribe to 117 journals using the SwetsWise pan-government contract. This is the only centrally held information on journal or magazine subscriptions.
b) The Home Office pays for a monthly rental for Parliament TV Services in Millbank. This TV services carries live and archived coverage of all UK Parliament proceedings taking place in public, including debates and committee meetings of both Houses. The monthly amount for line rental is £1275.00 and the yearly amount for TV provision and maintenance is £1880.96 all figures excl VAT.
In addition, there are Sky boxes in 2 Marsham Street which only transmit free to air channels (so no subscription) such as Sky News, BBC News, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, France 24, BBC1,2 ITV, CH4, CH5 etc. Again, these channels are distributed to TVs within the building.