HC Deb 20 May 2002 vol 386 c56W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland 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. [39912]

Mrs. Liddell

The Scotland Office was established in its present form on 1 July 1999. Since that date expenditure on communications activities has been as follows.

Year £
1999–20001 70,939
2000–01 422,134
2001–02 336,579
1 Part year

This includes expenditure on electoral registration and voter publicity of £26,861 in 1999–2000, £270,494 in 2000–01; and £186,564 in 2001–02.