HC Deb 01 May 1996 vol 276 c538W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proportion of his Department's advertising budget was allocated to local weekly newspapers in Wales in(a) 1993–94 and (b) 1994–95; and if he will make a statement. [26990]

Mr. Hague

Of the total which was spent on advertising in 1993–94, some 28 per cent. was spent with local weekly newspapers in Wales, and the corresponding figure for 1994–95 was some 21 per cent.