§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total amount 221W of money spent by his Department on advertising in each of the last five years for which figures are available (a) of job vacancies and (b) for other reasons.
§ Mr. BrittanThe information requested is as follows:
(a) Advertising Job Vacancies (£000s) (b) Other Advertising (£000s) Total (£000s) 1979–80 766 2,144 2,910 1980–81 984 576 1560 1981–82 103 1,754 1,857 1982–83 159 2,089 2,248 1983–84 186 2,700 2,886 The total amount spent on advertising in the press and on television in each of the last five years was given in my reply to a question from the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 25 May, at column 587. The figures in the table are the total amounts for all forms of advertising.
The amount shown as spent on advertising job vacancies includes the approximate amounts spent by the Central Office of Information under allied service arrangements on prison officer recruitment schemes but not the amount spent by my Department or the COI advertising career opportunities generally in the probation service or the police.