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Written question asked by Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 July 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 September 2003. It was answered by David Miliband (Labour) on Monday, 8 September 2003 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Dept for Education and Skills

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answers of 22nd May, Official Report, 405 c1001W, and 12th June, Official Report, 406 c1023W, for each departmental framework contract, what the total expenditure is on paid publicity services, categorised according to media, including design and print, for each of the last five years for which he has figures available. - Includes table.
Answer

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answers of 22 May 2003, Official Report, column 1001W, and 12 June 2003, Official Report, column 1023W, for each departmental framework contract, what the total expenditure is on paid publicity services, categorised according to media, including design and print, for each of the last five years for which he has figures available. [128158] Mr. Miliband: The Department's Marketing and Publicity Specialist Buying Unit initiate and manage 140 framework agreements with a range of suppliers covering several media areas. The following figures show expenditure by framework media area placed by Marketing and Publicity Division. (It should be noted that from 2002-03, an increasing proportion of such work is handled outside of Marketing and Publicity Division through a system of devolving non priority work to individual policy teams.) £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Print Binders and Design Writers Video/ Plastics Audio Visual 2000-01 10.5 1.6 3.3 251,000 1.1 2001-02 12.6 2.7 2.7 389,000 955,000 2002-03 5.7 1 1.3 521,000 864,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Typesetting and Photography Conferences Exhibitions PR Translation 2000-01 225,000 124,000 5.8 1.4 318,000 2001-02 315,000 103,000 4.7 926,000 1.5 2002-03 63,000 109,000 1.6 536,000 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: The PR costs for 2000-2001 differ from previous PQ responses as the figures above do not include PR expenditure via CO1 but expenditure through framework agreements only.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
128158; 410 c121-2W
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Publications Public expenditure Publicity Publishing Department for Education and Skills
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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