Publication - FOI/EIR release

The daily sales of The National and how they are funded: FOI release

Published: 22 June 2022
Directorate: Digital Directorate
Topic: Money and tax, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202200304597
Date received: 8 June 2022
Date responded: 14 June 2022

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

The daily Sales of The National and how they are funded.

Response

The most recent circulation figures the Scottish Government Library can access for The National is 9,101 from January to December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043120/https://www.abc.org.uk/product/18179.

Since 2019 The National de-registered from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) until re-registering on 29/03/22. See https://www.abc.org.uk/product/18179.

The National is owned by the Newsquest Media Group, and beyond newspaper and advertising sales we have no specific information on the income it receives. We’d suggest you contact The National for this information https://www.thenational.scot/contact/.

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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