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Written question asked by David Lammy (Labour) on Monday, 16 May 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 18 May 2011. It was answered by Lord Willetts (Conservative) on Monday, 13 June 2011 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Students: Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 3 May 2011, Official Report, column 717W, on students: finance, what budget his Department allocated to advertisements on (a) radio, (b) television, (c) online and (d) other media to communicate student finance arrangements for each year from 1999-2000 to 2010-11.
Answer

The table provides a breakdown of expenditure for (a) radio, (b) television, (c) online and (d) other media committed by the Department to communicating student finance arrangements. The table includes a similar breakdown for expenditure undertaken by the Student Loans Company (SLC). Records are only required to be kept for seven years: thus these figures are not available before 2002/03.Communications expenditure incurred against activity other than radio, television or online advertising is accounted for within the 'other media' column, which includes items such as PR, press advertisements, events, booklets, leaflets, posters, DVDs, research and evaluation.To date the Department has allocated £1.475 million to the recently launched information campaign aimed at potential students considering entering university from September 2012. This allocation has been accounted for against the 2011-12 financial year and therefore is not accounted for in the table.Expenditure by media covering the financial years 1999-2010 was as follows:

Financial year (a) Radio (b)TV (c) Digital (d) Other media
2002-03
BIS — 623,000 — 1,402,000
SLC — — — —
2003-04
BIS 387,000 2,172,000 145,000 1,295,000
SLC — — — —
2004-05
BIS 684,000 202,000 1,113,000
SLC — — — 280,598
2005-06
BIS 460,000 1,400,000 198,000 2,442,000
SLC — — — 1,483,900
2006-07
BIS 626,000 1,753,000 355,000 1,365,000
SLC — — — 1,097,092
2007-08
BIS 598,000 1,198,000 421,000 2,283,000
SLC — — 10,000 3,278,351
2008-09
BIS 432,000 1,225,000 239,000 2,104,000
SLC — — 18,000 2,833,560
2009-10
BIS — — 60,000
SLC 200,000 — — 5,063,030
2010-11
BIS — — — —
SLC — — 28,000 1,622,243

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
56291; 529 c572-4W
Session
2010-12
Related items
Students: Finance
Monday, 11 July 2011
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Finance Students
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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