Departmental Advertising

HC Deb 29 October 2003 vol 412 c267W

Mr. Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department spent on advertising in(a) 1995, (b) 1997 and (c) 2003. [133729]

Mr. McNulty

Expenditure is recorded on a financial year basis and is shown in the following table.

£ million
1995–96	6.4
1996–97	5.7
1997–98	4.5
1998–99	4.6
1999–2000	5.2
2000–01	7.8
2001–02	9.8
2002–03	10.2
2003–04	9.5
1 estimated advertising outturn

The increase in expenditure since 2000–01 reflects additional road safety advertising in support of the Government's road safety strategy "Tomorrow's Roads—Safer For Everyone" published in March 2000.