§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide(a) his Department's budgeted expenditure on (i) advertising, (ii) publicity and (iii) public information campaigns for the period January 429W 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. [13462]
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 13 February 1997]: All expenditure by my Department on publicity is in support of public information campaigns. Advertising forms part of publicity.
Details of estimated expenditure by my Department for the period January to March 1997 are:
Advertising £ Publications/exhibitions £ Total publicity £ Violent crime 102,000 Organ donors 42,000 Young driver 20,000 Fire action plan 164,000 Severe weather warning 35,000 Pre-school vouchers 950,000 Total 1,313,000 512,000 1,825,000 Details of actual expenditure for the same period in each of the past five financial years are set out in the table:
Advertising £ Publications/exhibitions £ Total publicity £ January to March 1996 291,000 425,500 716,500 January to March 1995 330,500 574,000 904,500 January to March 1994 494,000 1379,000 873,000 January to March 1993 297,500 1557,500 855,000 January to March 1992 216,000 1329,500 545,500 1 These figures do not include publications/exhibition expenditure by Historic Scotland. Details for these years are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.