§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the total amount of money spent by his Department on advertising in each of the last five years for which figures are available (a) of job vacancies and (b) for other reasons.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe total amount of money spent by the Treasury on advertising in each of the last five years, for job vacancies and for other reasons, is shown in the following table.
Amount spent on advertising job vacancies Treasury £ National Economic Development Office (NEDO) £ Amount spent on advertising for other reasons— Treasury (NEDO has no expenditure under this heading) £ 1979–80 3,217 11,226 285,600 1980–81 1,770 6,124 11,244 1981–82 685 3,400 346,289 1982–83 2,485 10,034 27,855 1983–84 691 18,779 1,280,395 The figures for the Treasury in the first and third columns are affected by the increase in size of the Department following the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) order 1981 (SI No. 1680) which provided for the transfer of certain functions from the Civil Service Department to the Treasury on 7 December 1981. The figures for NEDO in the second column reflect the fact that, unlike Government Departments, it handles all its own recruitment.
The large variations in the third column reflect the amounts spent on advertising the sale of Government shareholdings in British Petroleum and Cable and Wireless.