HC Deb 03 November 1987 vol 121 c621W
Mr. Tony Banks

asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much has been spent by his Department on advertising in national newspapers in each of the past five years; and if he will provide a breakdown by newspaper title.

Mr. Butcher

Information is not readily available to distinguish between expenditure on advertising in national newspapers and that in the press generally. Nor is it readily available for amounts spent other than centrally by my Department.

The figures which are readily available are:

£
1982–83 1,340,523
1983–84 1,198,443
1984–85 2,810,883
1985–86 1,216,424
1986–87 986,798

It is not the practice of Her Majesty's Government to publish the sums paid to individual contractors.