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Written question asked by Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 16 July 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 July 2009. It was answered by Dan Norris (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Departmental Publicity

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what national environment campaigns have been undertaken by his Department since 1997; and what the (a) resource, (b) capital expenditure and (c) staffing costs in 2009 prices were of each such campaign.
Answer

DEFRA was created in June 2001. Since then DEFRA has undertaken a wide range of various environmentally focussed campaigns through the core Department. This includes Every Action Counts, Climate Change Initiative, Act on CO2, Food Imports, and Muck in 4Life. The total costs for all marketing and communication activity since 2004-05 are as follows:

£
2004-05 4,174,571
2005-06 3,454,786
2006-07 2,084,525
2007-08 6,890,148
2008-09 ¹8,793,329
¹This includes the initial Act on CO2 mitigation campaign, now led by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Figures before financial year 2004-05 are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.Figures for resource costs, capital expenditure costs and staffing costs in 2009 prices could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
499 c395W; 288761
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Publicity
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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