§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the cost of advertising by his Department has been for each year since 1979 and for each of the last 12 months.
§ Mr. RedwoodWelsh Office advertising expenditure for each year since 1979 is as follows:
Year £,000 1979–80 61 1980–81 62 1981–82 100 1982–83 99 1983–84 108 1984–85 66 1985–86 31 1986–87 76 1987–88 230 1988–89 174 1989–90 411 1990–91 288 1991–92 349 1992–93 427 The records which my Department keeps and those of the Central Office of Information, which buys Government advertising, shows payments for invoices received rather than the value of actual advertising for each month. Costs are also monitored on a campaign by campaign basis. Shown is a table of monthly payments on that basis:
Total monthly expenditure for advertising November 1992 to November 1993 Month £ 1992 November 969 December 30,197 1993 January 17,003 February 9,985 March 190,625 April 0 May 1,850 June 0 July 17,738 August 24,076 September 38,200 October 55,749 November 59,408