§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the total amount 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. John PattenThe total amounts spent by the Department of Health and Social Security on advertising in each of the last five years is as follows:
Fiscal year (a) Job vacancy advertising £ (b) other advertising £ 1979–80 240,000 1,397,000 1980–81 121,000 1,063,000 1981–82 58,000 1,697,000 1982–83 56,000 2,374,000 1983–84 *43,000 2,914,000 * Estimate. Figures for other advertising include, for example, expenditure on campaigns for blood and organ donor recruitment, whooping cough vaccination, family income supplement take-up and social security legislation.