§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the expenditure on publicity by her Department in 1994–95 and 1995–96
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§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on the numbers of teaching and non-teaching staff employed by local authorities is collected by a local government management board on behalf of the joint staffing watch group. The table provides information for England as at June of each year. The coverage of these figures does not reflect the 2,500 increase in teacher numbers in maintained schools between January 1994 and January 1995.
broken down into spending on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) newspapers and (d) other matters; and what is the protected spending on publicity in 1996–97. [3983]
§ Mr. Robin SquireBefore the merger in July 1995, the Department operated separately as the Department for Education and the Employment Department. We will continue to follow separately funded programmes of publicity until the end of the financial year 1995–96.
Expenditure on publicity by the Department is:
£000 ED DFE 1994–95 (a) Television 2,778.3 — (b) Radio 441.6 — (c) Newspapers and posters 3,257.8 147.1 (d) Other matters 2,528.4 7,941.2 1995–96 (estimated) 2,906.1 — (a) Television — — (b) Radio 3,376.7 300 (c) Newspapers and posters 1,312.6 5,130 (d) Other matters — — The projected spending on publicity in the 1996–97 public expenditure survey allocation for the Department is £13,040,000. Details on how this will be divided between various forms of publicity have not yet been agreed.