§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the expenditure on publicity by her Department for each year since 1979 broken down into spending on(a) television, (b) radio, (c) newspaper and (d) other. [24389]
§ Mr. ForthThe expenditure figures for advertising and other promotional material by this Department for the financial years 1979–80 to 1994–95 are given in the table. Final decisions on media in the current financial year have not been taken.
Year TV £000 Radio £000 Newspaper £000 Other £000 1979–80 — — 91.6 12.2 1980–81 — — 8.9 58.3 1981–82 — — 86.9 49.9 1982–83 — — 6.0 33.7 1983–84 — — 9.6 74.9 1984–85 — — 18.5 150.6 1985–86 — — 14.8 184.1 1986–87 — — 532.0 533.0 1987–88 — — 280.0 1,459.0 1988–89 — 40.0 475.0 1,156.0 1989–90 — 11.8 238.0 1,150.0 1990–91 1,100 97.0 1,470.0 1,916.0 1991–92 800.0 — 2,237.9 5,842.7 1992–93 — — 1,086.4 5,800.1 1993–94 — 29.2 1,413.0 8,551.3 1994–95 — — 159.3 117,929.0 1 Estimated.