Press and Public Relations

HC Deb 07 March 2002 vol 381 cc465-6W

Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many people were employed in a press or public relations function in her Department on 1 January in(a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000, (e) 2001 and (f) 2002. [39942]

Clare Short

We currently employ four press officers, and this number of posts has remained the same since January 1997. We also have small teams working

	£
Action on Disability and Development	422,908
Action for Conservation through Tourism	83,030
African Initiatives	62,695
Motivation	28,815
Resources Project	34,330
Development Education in Dorset	95,005
GLADE Global and Development Education	16,095
Gloucestershire Development Education Centre	105,333
Cornish Association for Development Education	4,875
Somerset Goes Global, county council	99,120
Gloucestershire county council	17,000
Gloucester Development Education Centre	31,674

The total amount of funding offered for 2001–02 is £1,011,086.