HC Deb 14 January 2004 vol 416 c780W
Michael Fabricant

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the total expenditure on information campaigns and advertising was for her Department in 1997–98. [145329]

Ms Hewitt

My Department's expenditure on advertising through the Central Office of Information in 1997–98 amounted to £2,504,885 excluding VAT and subsequent COI rebates. Records of expenditure on other information campaigns are not held centrally.