§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure on relaunching the Benefit Fraud Hotline; [96277]
(2) what is the period of the Fraud Hotline advertising campaign covered by the expenditure announced on 25 October. [96279]
§ Mr. RookerThe National Benefit Fraud Hotline has not been re-launched. It has been running continuously since August 1996. A further marketing campaign will run from 1 November 1999 to 24 March 2000.
The campaign has a budget of £450,000. The breakdown of expenditure is as follows:
£000 Radio media costs 360 Press media costs 54 Production (including posters for BA offices) 36 Total 450