§ Mr. HanleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the current annual total of sponsorship of sports by tobacco companies; if he will list these individually and in relation to other commercial sponsorship; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MoynihanThe total expenditure on sports sponsorship by tobacco companies in 1987–88, the latest year for which figures are available, was £5,911,000. No information is held centrally on expenditure by individual companies. The Sports Council estimates that in 1987 sports sponsorship by non-tobacco companies was some £158 million.