HC Deb 04 February 1997 vol 289 c588W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales 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. [13458]

Mr. Hague

Welsh Office budgeted expenditure on advertising and publicity, which includes public information campaigns for the period January to March 1997, and out-turn expenditure for the period January to March 1996 is set out in the table. For previous financial years comparable information is not readily available.

Advertising Publicity and public information campaigns1
Period £ £
Budgeted expenditure
January-March 1997 47,133 758,378
Actual expenditure
January-March 1996 216,460 863,099
1 Expenditure figures for publicity and public information campaigns cannot be disaggregated.