§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list(a) his Department's budgeted expenditure on (i) advertising, (ii) publicity and (iii) public information campaigns for the period January to March 1997 and (b) the actual expenditure on (1) advertising, (2) publicity and (3) public information campaigns in the period January to March in each of the past five years. [13464]
§ Mr. HoramBudgeted expenditure on paid publicity for the period January to March 1997 is £8.96 million, of which £1.83 million is estimated to be spent on advertising.
Actual expenditure for the periods January to March in earlier years was:
£ million Total paid publicity Advertising 1995–96 8.77 1.70 1994–95 8.55 2.37 In the years before April 1994, our budgetary record systems do not allow us to break down expenditure into specific quarters, only whole years.