§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what guidelines his Department has issued to its agencies and other public bodies under its authority in respect of the employment of public relations companies and the procedures to be adopted in relation to requesting tenders for public relations companies. [16219]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe Department issued guidance to its non-departmental public bodies in August 1990 on publicity and advertising. This included guidelines on the734W use of public relations consultants and I am placing a copy of this guidance in the House of Commons Library.
General guidance for public bodies is contained in the Government publicity and advertising conventions, set out in annexes 1 and 2 to the National Audit Office report, "Publicity Services for Government Departments", House of Commons paper, 1 December 1989.