§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual budget for communications activities, including press, public relations, marketing and internal communications, was for her Department for each financial year from 1997–98 to 2001–02. [39919]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe figures for staff, administration and related costs are as follows:
£000 1997–98 12,540 1998–99 12,891 1999–2000 3,386 2000–01 3,971 2001–02 3,945 1 Prior to 1999–2000 the internal communication function was subsumed within other parts of the Department, and costs cannot be identified separately. Expenditure from the Department's central advertising and publicity budget is as follows.
£000 1997–98 10,879 1998–99 13,426 1999–2000 9,902 2000–01 14,595 2001–02 11,688 In addition to expenditure from this central budget, expenditure from budgets allocated to individual programmes will also include spend on publicity related activity. It is not possible, except at disproportionate cost, to separately identify all such publicity related expenditure. It is possible to identify expenditure on advertising and on public relations drawn from all budgets and this is as follows:
£000 Advertising Public Relations 1997–98 9,992 0 1998–99 15,673 549 1999–2000 11,900 88 2000–01 29,066 794 2001–02 17,665 655