HC Deb 09 December 1992 vol 215 c680W
Mr. Dewar

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much his Department is spending on publicity and promotion for the Child Support Agency in 1992–93.

Mr. Burt

The new child support scheme will make a substantial change to both existing law and practice in this area, substituting an administratively-based system for the current courts system. Publicity is being aimed at a wide audience among the public, lawyers and advisers, recognising the major scale of this change. The total publicity budget for 1992–93 is £4,012,000, including TV, radio and press advertisements, leaflets and other information material, distribution of leaflets through a handling house, training presentations to legal and lay advisers, and the launch of the Child Support Agency.