§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide(a) his Department's budgeted expenditure on (i) advertising, (ii) publicity and (iii) public information campaigns for the period January to March 1997 and (b) the actual expenditure on (1) advertising, (2) publicity and (3) public information campaigns in the period January to March in each of the past five years. [13460]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordTotal expenditure by my Department on paid publicity initiatives in each of the periods requested is in the table. Paid publicity campaigns usually involve a variety of multimedia elements and disaggregating expenditure into the categories requested is not possible except at disproportionate cost. The figures exclude expenditure by Departmental agencies and on central recruitment advertising.
£000 Budgeted expenditure for January to March 1997 4,400 Actual expenditure for January to March 1992 1,597 1993 9,999 1994 3,410 1995 4,107 1996 2,950