§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money his Department spent on advertising and marketing in each month since 1997. [137571]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeInformation for expenditure per month for the period and areas specified could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Expenditure from the Department's central advertising and publicity budget is as follows:
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£000 1997–98 10,879 1998–99 13,426 1999–2000 9,902 2000–01 14,595 2001–02 11,688 2002–03 14,089 2003–04 (to date) 2,937 pupils in secondary schools in (a) the North West region, (b) Merseyside, (c) St. Helens LEA and (d) England, two years before each of the years shown in (i).
In addition to expenditure from this central budget, expenditure from budgets allocated to individual programmes will also include spend on publicity and marketing related activity. It is not possible, except at disproportionate cost, to separately identify all such expenditure. However, it is possible to identify separately expenditure on advertising, and this is as follows:
£000 1997–98 9,992 1998–99 15,673 1999–2000 11,900 2000–01 29,066 2001–02 20,489 2002–03 11,261 2003–04 (to date) 11,210 Information on expenditure by agencies and non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally.