HC Deb 21 November 1991 vol 199 c267W
Mr. McMaster

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list those newspapers, magazines and periodicals in which the Government have placed advertisements aimed at encouraging electoral registration in the last year; and if he will make a statement;

(2) if he will publish a table showing what the Government have spent in the last year promoting the use of postal and proxy voting in each parliamentary constituency; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

The annual electoral registration advertising campaign in England and Wales this year used national poster sites only; no advertisements were placed in newspapers, magazines or periodicals. In a smaller, separate campaign designed to help teachers to encourage young people to register, advertisements were placed inThe Times Educational Supplement, Educational Guardian, Telegraph Education and Teachers Weekly.

A total of £14,500 has been spent in England and Wales on a leaflet and poster on absent voting. It is not possible to break this figure down by parliamentary constituency.