HC Deb 29 January 1988 vol 126 c396W
Mr. Fisher

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what estimates he has of radio's projected share of national advertising revenue over the next five years;

(2) if he will publish any estimates he has of radio's projected share of national advertising revenue over 'the next five years.

Mr. Renton

Our plans for independent radio will leave it well placed to increase its share—currently just over 2 per cent.—of total national advertising. Projections of this sort depend on a variety of assumptions, and I have not yet seen one which takes account of our announcement on 19 January. But it was forecast last year that radio advertising revenue could be over £270 million by 1995.