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I am indebted to our Westminster correspondent, Ruth McDonald, for bringing my attention to a Westminster answer from the Secretary of State to the Conservative MP Mark Hoban, who enquired which periodicals the NIO subscribes to.

Few can have a problem with "Crime Reduction News". But "Homes and Gardens" and the "Ulster Tatler"?

But if anyone thinks the NIO is being spendthrift, they should scan up to an answer to the Liberal Democrat John Hemming who wants to know how many new ministerial red boxes the department has bought in the last five years. The NIO reveals that it has been recycling the same boxes for the past five years. And now we have devolution there's presumably nothing to put in the boxes, apart from back copies of "Homes and Gardens".

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