§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his Department's advertising budget for(a) 1999–2000 and (b) 2000–01. [110256]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 16 February 2000]: The Department's budget for communications—including campaigns such as the tobacco education strategy—in 1999–2000 is £31 million. There is no separate budget for advertising. No information is available at present on the budget for the year 2000–01.