HC Deb 16 May 1986 vol 97 cc586-7W
Mr. Aitken

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the advertisements placed by his Department for the purposes of alerting people to the opportunity to petition on the Channel Tunnel Bill, stating the publication dates and the newspapers in which the advertisement appeared.

Mr. David Mitchell

The Department placed advertisements alerting people to the opportunity to petition against the Channel Tunnel Bill in the following newspapers on the dates indicated:

Newspaper Date
Daily Express 21 April
London Standard 21 April
The Times 21 April
Daily Mail 22 April
Daily Telegraph 22 April
Guardian 22 April
Sun 22 April
South Kent Newspapers 24 April
Kent & Sussex Courier Group 25 April
Kent Messenger Group* 25 April
South London Press 25 April
Surrey Mirror 25 April
News of the World 27 April
Sunday Times 27 April
Canterbury Times 28 April
* Except Canterbury Times.

Mr. Aitken

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many copies of his Department's leaflet "Channel Tunnel: How to Make Your Voice Heard" have been distributed in Kent; and on what dates the distribution took place.

Mr. David Mitchell

Four thousand seven hundred copies of the Department's leaflet "Channel Tunnel: How to Make Your Voice Heard" were sent to Kent local authorities, Members of Parliament, the Channel Tunnel Group's information centre in Folkestone and other interested bodies on 21 April. Since then the Department has distributed a further 13,000 copies to individuals and groups, many of them in Kent.

Mr. Aitken

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many copies of his Department's leaflet entitled "Channel Tunnel: How to Make Your Voice Heard" were printed.

Mr. David Mitchell

Twenty five thousand.

Mr. Aitken

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what was the publication date of his Department's leaflet entitled "Channel Tunnel: How to Make Your Voice Heard".

Mr. David Mitchell

18 April.

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