§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much(a) his Department and (b) each agency and non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year from 1995–96 to 2002–03 (estimated); and if he will make a statement; [92239]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggExpenditure from the Department's central advertising and publicity budget is as follows:
£000 1995–96 1n/a 1996–97 1n/a 1997–98 10,879 1998–99 13,426 1999–2000 9,902 2000–01 14,595 2001–02 11,688 2002–032 14,172 1Not available 2Estimated 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 separately expenditure on advertising, and this is as follows:
£000 1995–961 8,296 1996–97 7,538 1997–98 9,992 1998–99 15,673 1999–2000 11,900 2000–01 29,066 2001–02 20,489 2002–032 12,215 1Employment Department and Department for Education 2Estimated Information on expenditure by agencies and non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally.