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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what the total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure was in his 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. [149257] Ms Quin: [holding answer 8 February 2001]: Total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure by MAFF for the financial years 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and planned expenditure for 2000-01 on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper per advertising and (iii) direct mail, is as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Public opinion research Television, radio and newspaper Direct mail{ 1} advertising 1996-97 78,000 109,000 1,454,000 1997-98 257,000 248,000 1,254,000 1998-99 164,000 834,000 943,000 1999-2000 386,740 614,104 1,036,000 2000-01{2} 83,000 360,712 1,043,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Including the despatch of forms and explanatory material to farmers for MAFF administered schemes {2} Actual spending to date

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

149257; 364 c476W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Direct marketing Expenditure Government departments Publicity Media Surveys Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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