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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the principal expenditure items and the total expenditure by her Department and its predecessors on advertising and publicity in each year since 1987-88. [13672] Mr. Robin Squire: [holding answer 31 January 1997]: Pursuant to my reply of 30 January, total spending on advertising and publicity for the Department is given below in financial years. Before the merger in July 1995, the Department operated separately funded programmes of publicity. This continued until the end of the financial year 1995-96. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million Department for Education 1987-88 1.7 1988-89 1.6 1989-90 1.4 1990-91 4.5 1991-92 9.0 1992-93 8.0 1993-94 10.1 1994-95 9.4 1995-96 5.4 Department of Employment 1987-88 {1}6.9 1988-89 {1}5.7 1989-90 {1}3.0 1990-91 {1}2.6 1991-92 18.3 1992-93 7.2 1993-94 11.1 1994-95 11.1 1995-96 11.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures for these years do not include expenditure by the Training Agency, Training Commission and Manpower Services Commission. Current estimated spending for the Department for Education and Employment for 1996-97 is £18.9 million. Principle expenditure items since the creation of the Department for Education and Employment in July 1995 have been publicity campaigns covering the school and college performance tables, the nursery education voucher scheme, modern apprenticeships, the disability Discrimination Act 1995, career development loans and "Just the Job". A detailed breakdown of principle expenditure items by both of the former Departments prior to the merger, could be produced only at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

13672; 289 c558W;289 c556W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Advertising Expenditure Publicity Department of Employment Department for Education and Employment Department of Education and Science