§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for Defence when the hon. Member for Newham, North-West can expect a substantive answer to his question to which a holding answer was given on 6 December 1985, Official Report, column 386.
§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to the reply, 6 December 1985, c. 386]: Expenditure on advertising by the Ministry of Defence, and by the Central Office of Information on our behalf in 1984–85 is given in the following table. The figures include advertising for civilian and Armed Forces recruitment; range firing notices and defence sales advertisements:
Financial year 1984–85 £ million Press/Journals 6.863 TV/Films 0.488 TOTAL 7.351 The advertising budget for 1985–86 is £8£876 million, of which some £6 million has been spent to date.