HC Deb 08 September 2003 vol 410 cc121-2W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answers of 22 May 2003,Official Report, column 1001W, and 12 June 2003, Official Report, column 1023W, for each departmental framework contract, what the total expenditure is on paid publicity services, categorised according to media, including design and print, for each of the last five years for which he has figures available. [128158]

Mr. Miliband

The Department's Marketing and Publicity Specialist Buying Unit initiate and manage 140 framework agreements with a range of suppliers covering several media areas. The following figures show expenditure by framework media area placed by Marketing and Publicity Division. (It should be noted that from 2002–03, an increasing proportion of such work is handled outside of Marketing and Publicity Division through a system of devolving non priority work to individual policy teams.)

£ million
Print Binders and

Plastics

 Design Writers Video/

Audio

Visual
2000–01 10.5 1.6 3.3 251,000 1.1
2001–02 12.6 2.7 2.7 389,000 955,000
2002–03 5.7 1 1.3 521.000 864.000

£ million
Typesetting

and

Translation

 Photography Conferences Exhibitions PR
2000–01 225,000 124,000 5.8 1.4 318,000
2001–02 315,000 103,000 4.7 926,000 1.5
2002–03 63,000 109.000 1.6 536,000 2

Note:

The PR costs for 2000–2001 differ from previous PQ responses as the figures above do not include PR expenditure via CO1 but expenditure through framework agreements only.