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Irish News
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The Minister of State receives the following newspapers:
Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
Financial Times
The Sun
Daily Mail
The Times
The Independent
Irish Times
Belfast Newsletter
Irish News
Belfast Telegraph PM
Total cost per week: £55.01
The cost is for newspapers both in Belfast and London as Ministers use both locations.
International Development
Africa: Conflict Resolution
Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress has been made towards meeting the G8 pledge to train 20,000 African peacekeepers. [281961]
Mr. Thomas: The pledge by G8 countries at Gleneagles in 2005 to train 20,000 peacekeepers in Africa has been exceeded.
Departmental Food
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of the (a) meat, (b) fruit and (c) vegetables procured by his Department in the last 12 months was produced in the UK. [281940]
Mr. Michael Foster:
A second report on the proportion of domestically produced food used by Government Departments and also supplied to hospitals and prisons under contracts negotiated by NHS Supply Chain and HM Prison Service was published in November 2008,
covering the year from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008. This report and the first one covering the previous year can be found at:
The report gives details of the proportion of individual meat, fruit and vegetable categories purchased. The overall percentage of domestically produced food for the Department for International Development was 55 per cent.
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