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Cabinet Office

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 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. [149269] Marjorie Mowlam: The total expenditure during (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99 and (d) 1999-2000, and the planned expenditure during 2000-01 on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper advertising and (iii) direct mail, is shown in the table. All figures are inclusive of VAT where applicable. Table--total and planned expenditure £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01{ 1} Public Opinion Research {2}-- 656,604 897,622 270,096 532,076 Advertising (television, 337,465 238,270 246,438 678,601 662,277 radio and newspaper) Direct Mail 548,204 660,427 521,950 428,304 553,060 Total 885,669 1,555,301 1,666,010 1,377,001 1,747,413 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Planned {2} Not available Notes: 1. Figures only include Cabinet Office entities and divisions as of 31 January 2001. 2. Figures do not include the salary costs of Cabinet Office staff. 3. Direct Mail includes all postage services costs of the Cabinet Office. 4. Expenditure on advertising include recruitment advertising. 5. Expenditure undertaken by Central Office of Information on behalf of clients is not included.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

364 c430W; 149269

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Direct marketing Expenditure Government departments Publicity Media Surveys Cabinet Office

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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