Read all about it: States spend almost £140k on newspapers and magazines

Thursday 07 September 2017

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that the States spent close to £140k on magazines and newspapers across 20 departments last year.

The biggest spender on papers and magazines was Health and Social Services who paid out £75,392.81. The FOI response says that this figure “includes magazine subscriptions to specialist journals for Health professionals.”

Pictured: An FOI request revealed that the States spent close to £140,000 on magazines and newspapers last year.

Health was followed by Education, whose expenditure of £40,677 includes stocking the Jersey Library and the island’s 35 schools.

The expenditure of the other non-ministerial departments is as follows: 

Pictured: A breakdown of the non-ministerial departments' expenditure on publications.

The person who submitted the request also wanted to know how many of the 8,000 States employees subscribed to the JEP online. The FOI department responded: “For those departments able to provide this information there are 24 subscriptions to JEP online.”

The FOI also confirmed that 12 departments who were able to respond to the request pay for the delivery of newspapers.

Express has approached the Health department for a comment, but so far, has not received any response.