§ Mr. Bidwellasked the Minister for the Civil Service what was the total amount spent on newspaper and magazine advertising undertaken by the Central Office of Information on behalf of other Government Departments in the years 1974–75 and 1975–76; and which national newspapers were used together with a total for each.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe total amount spent on newspaper and magazine advertising by the Central Office of Information on behalf of other Government Departments was £7,611,000 in 1974–75 and an estimated £8,872,000 for 1975–76. The amounts spent in individual national newspapers in both years were as follows:
1974–75 £000 1975–76 (April-December 1975 only) £000 Daily Express 539 525 Daily Mail 366 310 Daily Mirror (with the Glasgow Daily Record) 1,121 837 The Daily Telegraph 559 443 Financial Times 101 108 The Guardian 147 156 Morning Star — 1 Sun 822 614 The Times 149 130 News of the World 312 249 Observer 273 218 Sunday Express 380 334 Sunday Mirror (with the Glasgow Sunday Mail) 462 320 Sunday People 192 202 Sunday Telegraph 123 113 Sunday Times 521 411