§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the annual budget for communications activities, including press, public relations, marketing and internal communications, was for his Department for each financial year from 1997–98 to 2001–02. [39917]
§ Mr. MacShaneNeither communications activities nor the sub-headings listed have individual budgets specifically allocated to them within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office accounting system. However it is possible to identify and extract expenditure on some of the listed categories through other budgets.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office expenditure on communications activities for financial years (FYs) 1997–98 to 2001–02 was as follows:
£ Financial years Expenditure on communications activities 1997–98 13,169,205 1998–99 11,565,330 1999–2000 12,788,979 2000–01 13,019,789 2001–021 11,578,385 1 Estimated Note:
The figures include UK expenditure only, on the following categories: press, public relations, marketing and internal communications; including overseas expenditure could be undertaken only at disproportionate cost. 2001–02 is the current financial year, an estimating final expenditure figure is provided.