§ Mr. FabricantTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library the result of research carried out into public reaction to his Department's policies since 1 May 1997. [63144]
§ Mr. Doug Henderson[holding answer 30 June 1998]: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my predecessor on 28 July 1998, Official Report, column 199. I regret that the information provided contained minor inaccuracies and did not specify which reports would be placed in the Library. The research listed was that reported to the Survey Control Unit of the Office for National Statistics.
The RAF attitude survey and advertising tracking research was commissioned in March 1997 not March 1998 and should not therefore have been included in the previous answer. The Army fitness video research was commissioned but was not in fact, undertaken.
The following reports have now been placed in the Library of the House:
- Public Presentation of the SDR: two reports on focus group research and an omnibus survey.
- Attitudes to NATO
- Catterick Garrison Radio Trade evaluation
- Navy advertising evaluation
- SGE & OM Qualitative research Royal Navy
- 0G8 dropout research Royal Navy
- RAF Advertising Strategy
- Technicians Target Market research—RAF
- RAF degree package research
- Image of RAF/reactions to advertising concepts
- Advertising tracking RAF
- Be the Best branding research—Army
- Be the Best tracking research—Army.
The following reports are being withheld under the terms of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information:
- Exemption 7 Effective management and operations of the public service
- Evaluation of marketing effects on walk-ins to AFCO/IACIO offices
- Events evaluation research
- Exemption 13 Third party's commercial confidences
- Territorial Army advertising development research
- Army Campaign Development Research
- Army Ethnic Minority Initiative evaluation
- Exemption 11—Research, statistics and analysis
- Army Presentation Team Evaluation
- Officer Profiling research.