Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.

The Department subscribes to Swets Information Services Ltd and Jones Yarrell Leadenhall Ltd for our newspapers and magazines.

The Department spent £113,308 on newspapers, periodicals and magazines in 2009-10; this was reduced by 78% to £24,879 in 2013-14 and we are taking further steps to reduce administrative spending across the board.

On television channels, we do not currently subscribe to any channels. By contrast, the Department under the last administration spent £5,549 on premium Sky channels, which included television for the (now closed) Darts Bar.