HC Deb 24 February 2004 vol 418 cc352-3W
Pete Wishart

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department's expenditure on recruitment advertising was in each of the last three years, broken down by publication; and what proportion of such expenditure was(a) to advertise vacant posts and (b) in the form of other general recruitment advertising. [155520]

Hilary Benn

The proportion of our overall advertising expenditure spent to(a) advertise vacant posts and (b) in the form of other recruitment advertising, is shown in the following table.

2001 2002 2003
Total advertising expenditure (£) 1,208,190.72 914,571.19 849,196.36
Total spent on advertising vacant posts (£) 836.848.13 702,098.15 746,712.70
Percentage spent on advertising vacant posts 69 77 88
Total spent on other recruitment advertising (£) 371,342.59 212,473.04 102,483.66
Percentage spent on other recruitment advertising 31 23 12

It would involve disproportionate cost for DFID to break down our recruitment advertising expenditure by publication.