HC Deb 14 January 1991 vol 183 cc432-3W
Mr. Michael

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) further to his answer to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) on 11 December,Official Report, columns 332–33, if he will list against each Department and area of responsibility within his Department (a) the expenditure relevant to that department or responsibility in respect of press advertising, (b) the expenditure for television advertising and (c) the figure for other advertising and promotion;

(2) whether he will publish tables showing the amount spent in each of the last five years by his Department on (a) advertising in the press, (b) advertising on television and radio and (c) other advertising and promotions in respect of (1) health; (2) education, (3) agriculture, (4) the Valleys initiative, (5) employment and economic issues, (6) promotion of tourism and (7) environmental issues;

(3) if he will list the 10 most expensive items of expenditure within each of the headings of press advertising, television advertising and other advertising and promotion by his Department in each of the last three years;

(4) if he will list the publicity campaigns that have been undertaken by his Department in each of the last three years and the sums spent on each in respect of (a) press advertising, (b) television advertising and (c) other forms of advertising and promotion on each.

Mr. David Hunt

[holding answers 17–20 December 1990]: A detailed breakdown of expenditure by the Welsh Office on advertising and promotion in 1989–90 is set out in table 1.

Table 2 provides comparable information in respect of the 10 most expensive items/campaigns undertaken in that year.

Equivalent breakdowns for the years prior to 1989–90 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Television Press Other Total
CADW 30 133 163
Other 21 206 227
Total 57 354 1,758 2,169

Table 2
Major advertising and promotion items/campaigns:1989–90
£000
Television Press Other Total
Community charge 123 327 450
Festival of food and farming 4 275 279
Misuse of drugs 53 1 77 131
National curriculum 103 103
Enterprise Wales 16 53 69
Health exhibition 64 64
Drink drive 4 53 57
Farm conservation grant 43 43
Urdd Eisteddfod 40 40
National Health Service forum 35 35