§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the total real terms expenditure of her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies on publicity in each of the years(a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99,(c) 1999–2000, (d) 2000–01 and (e) 2001–02, (i) to date and (ii) as estimated for the whole of the present year; and if she will break these figures down to indicate expenditure on (A) advertising and (B) press and public relations. [36159]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisExpenditure from the Department's central advertising and publicity budget is as follows (in real terms):
£ million 1997–98 11.9 1998–99 14.3 1999–2000 10.3 2000–01 15.0 2001–02 (to end January) 6.0 2001–02 (estimated) 11.7 In addition to expenditure from this central budget, expenditure from budgets allocated to individual programmes will also include spend on publicity related activity. It is not possible, except at disproportionate cost, to separately identify all such publicity related expenditure. It is possible to identify expenditure on advertising and on public relations drawn from all budgets and this is as follows (in real terms):
Advertising (£m) Public relations (£m) 1997–98 11.0 0 1998–99 16.8 0.6 1999–2000 12.4 0.1 2000–01 29.7 0.8 2001–02 (to end January) 17.7 0.6 2001–02 (estimated) 17.7 0.6 Information on expenditure by agencies and non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally.