Question reference: S4W-23717
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 17 December 2014
-
Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by John Swinney on 18 December 2014
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the distribution of and costs associated with Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland.
Answer
Information relating to the distribution and costs associated with Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland was released in answer to parliamentary question S4W-20080 on 11 March 2014. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx
Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an independent Scotland has been available to order at no cost to individuals in hard copy or digital formats since its launch in November 2013. Reprints of Scotland’s Future were undertaken in response to unprecedented demand from the public and, in total, 80,000 copies were printed.
Latest available figures show that over 165,000 copies of the white paper have been ordered. As at 3 December 2014, 91,102 copies of Scotland’s Future have been downloaded in digital format and 75,386 have been distributed as a hard copy. All copies issued to members of the public were in response to a request from that individual.
To meet this demand, production, printing and distribution costs further to those released in March 2014 are:
| Scotland’s Future: Your guide to an independent Scotland | Costs |
| Production, including the production of related excerpts from the white paper as outlined at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/constitution/publications | £33,226 |
| | £281,950 |
| Distribution, process handling and fulfilment | £91,844 |
| Total | £407,020 |