Advertising Budgets

HC Deb 29 March 2000 vol 347 c198W

Mr. Baker

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what is her Department's advertising budget for(a) 1999–2000 and (b) 2000–01. [110257]

Mr. Stringer

The advertising budgets for the Cabinet Office for the 1999–2000 and 2000–01 are as follows:

Year	£000
1999–2000	8,998
2000–01	69.5

These figures include the advertising undertaken by executive agencies in publicising their services provided to other parts of government. The Central Office of Information undertakes advertising on behalf of other parts of government, and this expenditure is excluded from Cabinet Office figures. Of the 1999–2000 total, £8,918,000 is associated with the Millennium Bug Information Programmes.