§ Mr. SimpsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much has been spent on commercial advertising space(a) in Nottingham and (b) nationally, informing the public of possible entitlement to (i) income support, (ii) family credit, (iii) disability working allowance, (iv) housing benefit, (v) council tax benefit, (vi) attendance allowance, (vii) child benefit, (viii) disability living allowance, (ix) incapacity benefit, (x) industrial disablement benefit, (xi) invalid care 59W allowance, (xii) maternity allowance, (xiii) one parent benefit, (xiv) retirement pension, (xv) severe disablement allowance and (xvi) widows benefits. [33877]
§ Mr. Roger EvansIn 1995–96, more than £2,000 was spent in Nottingham to promote the whole range of benefits available for the elderly. A further £1,175 was spent to promote back to work benefits including family credit and disability working allowance.
A total of £2.6 million was spent nationally on promoting benefits for people returning to work. The benefits promoted were family credit and disability working allowance, but the campaign was also directed at people leaving incapacity benefit. Some £100,000 was spent on a campaign informing people about the January changes to housing benefit rules. It is not possible to say how much of the total spent related to Nottingham.
The Benefits Agency spent £5,963,391 nationally on publicising benefits in 1995–96 by way of leaflets and other publicity. The cost of publicity for Nottingham is included in this total, but it is not possible to identify these individual costs from the national figure.