Focus Groups: Government Expenditure

HL Deb 05 May 2004 vol 660 c122WA

Lord Patten

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How much they have spent on focus groups in each of the years 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01,2001–02 and 2002–03. [HL2482]

Lord Bassam of Brighton

Figures are not held centrally for government expenditure in this area. Government departments are responsible for recording their own expenditure on focus groups or other forms of market research.