§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in theOfficial Report the total expenditure by his Department on all forms of press and public relations, information and publicity including the production and distribution of pamphlets and video 253W material, and so on, for each financial year from 1979 to date, and the planned allocation for the next three financial years broken down by appropriate category.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe information available, excluding staffing and associated costs, is as follows:
Expenditure on publicity, information publications and advertising £'000 1979–80 130 1980–81 96 1981–82 178 1982–83 109 1983–84 173 1984–85 332 1985–86 860 1986–87 1,340 1987–88 1,826 1988–89 12,900 1 Estimated outturn. These figures include expenditure by the Department and, in the years before 1984–85, the Central Office of Information on publicity, information publications and advertising; the arrangements for payment for COI work were changed in 1984–85. Decisions on allocations for the next three financial years have not yet been reached.