Government Department (Advertising and Public Relations Expenditure)

HC Deb 10 March 1969 vol 779 cc226-7W

88. Sir T. Beamish

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the sums spent on advertising and public relations by Government Departments, shown separately, including the Post Office, in each of the last five calendar years excluding costs arising from employment under the Crown but including the cost of Press advertisements, posters, pamphlets, etc., and payments to agencies and consultants outside the Government service.

Mr. Taverne

To provide all the information which the hon. Gentleman wants would involve disproportionate cost, but he may care to refer to the Memorandum by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Table 9) for the years in question.