§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure was in his Department for the financial years(a) 1996–97, (b) 1997–98, (c) 1998–99 and (d) 1999–2000, and what the planned expenditure and breakdown of expenditure for 2000–01 is on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper advertising and (iii) direct mail. [149256]
§ Mr. Straw[holding answer 8 February 2001]: For expenditure on public opinion research I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) on 25 January 2001, Official Report, column 718W and the answer I gave to the hon. Member on 8 June 2000, Official Report, column 373W. Further work would incur disproportionate cost.
Total expenditure on television, radio and newspaper advertising is as follows:
Year £ million (including VAT) 1996–97 5.23 1997–98 1.4 1998–99 1.8 1999–2000 5.65 2000–01 122.56 1Planned expenditure. The budget for 2000–01 covers £8.67 million for a vehicle crime reduction campaign; £7.35 million for the police recruitment campaign; £3.34 million to publicise rolling electoral registration; £2.4 million on a fire safety campaign; and £800,000 on a campaign to make people aware of the introduction of the Human Rights Act.
Expenditure on direct mail on 1999–2000 was £716,537 spent on a United Kingdom-wide door drop as part of the campaign to explain changes to the voting system for the European elections campaign. In 2000–01 £683,807 was spent on a door drop in England and Wales as part of a fire safety campaign.