HC Deb 24 June 1997 vol 296 c463W
Sir Richard Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much money was spent on programmes designed to improve the public image of(a) the European Union and (b) the Single Currency in 1996; and if he will list the projects involved. [4909]

Mr. Doug Henderson

On the basis that the question is referring to expenditure from the EC budget, a total of 113 million ecu was committed in 1996 for information and communication activities under Title B3-3. Of this, 50 million ecu was spent on Budget line B3-306, which covers a number of specific information programmes, including to publicise the euro.

The EC Budget sets out Commission spending on information activities by broad categories (or Budget lines) within Title B3-3. Details of the individual projects funded from these lines are not published in consolidated form by the Commission.