§ Mr. MossTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her Department's expenditure was on(a) advertising consultants, (b) public relations consultants and (c) press officers, broken down by grade in (i) 1997–98 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.[184346]
§ Mr. CabornThe Department did not incur any expenditure on advertising consultants or public relations consultants in either 1997–98 or 2003–04, the latest year for which figures are available. Expenditure on press officers for 2003–04, broken down by grade, was:
Grade £ A 66,124 A/TP 56,325 B 315,021 Information requested for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.