§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the total expenditure was on(a) advertising, (b) polling, (c) focus groups, (d) design consultants, (e) caterers, (f) production of departmental 432W publications and (g) photographs/photographers by her Department for each year since 1995 in (i) cash and (ii) real terms; what was (A) the annual percentage increase in spending on each category and (B) spending on each category as a percentage of the total departmental running costs; and if she will make a statement. [6930]
§ Clare ShortExpenditure in relation to publications, opinion polling and photography in the years in question is as follows.
£000 Publications1 Opinion polling Photography 1995–96 352 — 4 1996–97 318 — 4 1997–98 166 43 21 1998–99 347 — 23 1999–2000 570 45 10 2000–01 639 58 5 1 Including design costs We do not hold a separate advertising budget. However the bulk of our advertising is in relation to recruitment, on which we spend around £1 million to £1.2 million per year.
It would involve disproportionate effort to calculate the total cost of catering services in the years in question since these are not charged to a single budget.The majority of the expenditure set out in the table is charged to programme budgets, and so it is not possible to make a meaningful calculation of its share of our running cost budget.