§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was of media advertising in each of the past five parliamentary Sessions including the current session, for her Department in(a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland; and for the last two parliamentary Sessions and the current parliamentary Session, what the media advertising expenditure was per month in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland. [37402]
§ Mr. MorleyAs DEFRA was created in June 2001 annual retrospective media expenditure analysis by territory location does not exist.
Since the formation of DEFRA our records show a total for centralised media publicity expenditure of £2,589,289. This excludes expenditure relating to foot and mouth disease.
The expenditure analysis set out in the table identifies three territorial areas: England, England and Wales and the United Kingdom.
De-centralised expenditure incurred by non-departmental public bodies, agencies and DEFRA directorates has not been included as obtaining this information could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
DEFRA centrally funded media publicity expenditure £thousand England England and Wales United Kingdom Total June 2001 33,585 37,078 21,512 92,175 July 2001 11,983 72,676 — 84,659 August 2001 24,570 33,373 131,229 189,172 September 2001 62,801 44,180 126,895 233,876 October 2001 45,343 41,630 236,786 323,759 November 2001 14,358 37,664 144,688 196,710 December 2001 115,698 16,019 64,664 196,381 January 2002 12,774 96,722 224,856 334,352 February 2002 33,812 37,357 238,502 309,671 March 2002 60,896 117,229 450,404 628,529 Total 415,820 533,928 1,639,536 2,589,284