§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Taylor) of 3 March,Official Report, column 833, if he will list the budgets for the various public information campaigns for the current financial year; and if he will make a statement on the extent to which the budgets will be affected following his recent statement of the 20 per cent. efficiency gains.
§ Mr. NorrisThe budgets provisionally allocated to the various public information campaigns planned for the current financial year are as follows:
£ million Road safety campaigns 6.30 drink drive 2.50 kill your speed and child road safety 3.00 other road safety 0.80 Other transport safety and public information campaigns 0.65 These budgets are not affected by the recently announced 20 per cent. efficiency gains statement, but as with all voted expenditure they are constantly reviewed in the light of the priorities and the resources available to meet them.
Responsibility for marine and coastal public information campaigns and the relevant budgets is being transferred to the Marine Safety Agency and the Coastguard Agency.