HC Deb 28 January 1999 vol 324 c408W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 12 January 1999,Official Report, column 145, if he will list expenditure not included in his answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) by market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. [67945]

Mr. Mudie

There were no additional research, advertising or direct mail costs incurred by task forces and review bodies. Costs for focus group research and market research were included in my previous Answer under public opinion research, 12 January 1999,Official Report, column 145.

Within the Department's Advertising and Publicity budget the total spend on publications from May 1997 to December 1998 was £2,940,000, an average of £147,000 per month. This compares with a total spend for the previous financial year, 1996–97, of £2,500,000, or an average of £208,333 per month.