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Scotland Office

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what the total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure was in her Department for the financial years (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99 and (d) 1999-2000, and what the planned expenditure and breakdown of expenditure for 2000-01 is on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper advertising and (iii) direct mail. [149262] Mrs. Liddell: [holding answer 8 February 2001]: Expenditure by the former Scottish Office was as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Press advertising TV Radio Direct mail 1996-97 981,335 1,160,447 444,957 -- 1997-98 526,206 814,874 221,021 63,473 1998-99 1,058,573 2,371,073 393,701 89,080 1999 April-June 286,323 378,719 1,681 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The Scotland Office was established in its present form on 1 July 1999. The Department has carried out one advertising campaign on electoral registration. Expenditure was as follows: 2000-01 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ Press advertising 154,758 TV 163,073 Radio -- Direct mail -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

368 c370W; 149262

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Direct marketing Expenditure Government departments Publicity Media Surveys Scottish Office Scotland Office

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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