§ Mr. Frank Fieldasked the Paymaster General if he will list the size of his Department's advertising budget from each financial year since 1979; and if he will give the estimate for the next financial year.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 24 November 1986]: We do not have an advertising budget as such. For figures of expenditure on the promotion of employment and training schemes to the people intended to benefit from them, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on 19 November 1986, at column 216.
We have not yet set a figure for estimated expenditure on such promotion in 1987–88.
§ Mr. Frank Fieldasked the Paymaster General what has been the size of the budget for information and publicity staff of each financial year since 1979; and if he will detail the number of staff employed on this work over the same time span.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 24 November 1986]: For the number of staff employed on this work from 1979 until the present, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on 19 November, at column 217. Salary costs for these staff in 1985–86 were £455,000. Salary costs were not separately attributed to these staff in previous years.