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Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department and its predecessor spent on advertising and promotional campaigns in each year since 1997; and how much was spent on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print media and (d) other costs in each campaign; and if he will make a statement. [164170]

Kevin Brennan: Promotional campaigns, including those using advertising, are funded from the Department's central Advertising and Publicity Budget and from individual programme budgets held by policy directorates.


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Spend from the Advertising and Publicity Budget since 1997 is set out as follows . In addition to funding promotional campaigns, this budget also covers a wide range of other publicity activity (including magazine production and infrastructure costs such as mailing and storage of departmental publications). It is not possible to separately identify the campaign activity, except at disproportionate cost.

£000

1997-98

10,879

1998-99

13,426

2000-01

14,595

2001-02

11,688

2002-03

14,091

2003-04

16,943

2004-05

12,489

2005-06

9,391

2006-07

10,686

2007-08 (to 31 October 2007)

5,713


The spend on promotional campaigns from individual policy directorate programmes cannot be separately identified, except at disproportionate cost. However, it is possible to separate the Department's spend on advertising, as this is centrally placed through the Central Office of Information. However, these figures will include advertising spend from within the Advertising and Publicity Budget totals given in the table.

The Department's advertising spend since 1997 is set out as follows, with a breakdown of individual campaign totals (where known) since 2000-01 and a breakdown of media spend against individual campaigns since 2004-05. It is not possible, without disproportionate cost, to provide earlier breakdown of costs or further details of campaign costs.


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£000 Campaign £000

1997-98

9,992

1998-99

15,673

1999-2000

11,900

2000-01

29,110

Don't Quit Now

2,700

New Deal 50 plus

2,400

ICT employability

2,011

Childcare recruitment

1,821

Promotion of parents’ magazine

1,484

Disability discrimination

1,242

Fast track teaching

1,056

Modern Apprenticeships

856

Individual Learning Accounts

612

2001-02

17,665

Adult basic skills

5,096

Childcare recruitment

2,504

Science Year

1,803

Excellence Challenge

1,750

Modern Apprenticeships

1,670

Foundation Degrees

1,325

Fast track teaching

1,250

Millennium Volunteers

848

Promotion of parents' magazine

770

New Deal 25 plus

633

2002-03

13,790

Adult basic skills

5,478

Childcare recruitment

2,741

Aim higher

2,650

Connexions

1,320

Student finance

655

Foundation Degrees

549

2003-04

20,170

Adult basic skills

6,673

Aim higher

4,190

Connexions

2,608

Childcare recruitment

2,987

Foundation Degrees

2,814



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Television Radio Print Total

2004-05

11,088

Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

1,241

768

1,544

3,553

Sure Start Month

127

127

Adult basic skills

2,941

726

580

4,247

Teenage pregnancy

961

19

980

Student finance

684

183

867

Fast track teaching

69

69

Foundation Degrees

483

483

Childcare recruitment

281

281

Promotion of Need 2 Know website

275

275

Promotion of Parents' Centre website

172

172

DfES classified/recruitment

31

31

2005-06

7,939

EMA

786

305

171

1,261

Teenage pregnancy

400

538

143

1,081

Childcare recruitment

302

289

591

Adult basic skills

1,238

207

126

1,570

Student finance

1,400

460

196

2,057

Need 2 Know

54

54

Parent's Centre

143

143

Foundation Degrees

221

413

634

Fast track teaching

18

18

DirectGov parenting franchise

147

293

440

DirectGov education and learning franchise

85

85

Sure Start

3

3

Every child matters

2

2

2006-07

6,265

Adult basic skills

1,491

244

1,805

Student finance

1,753

626

97

2,476

Teenage pregnancy

558

653

59

1,534

Childcare recruitment

166

405

Children and young people's workforce

45

2007-08

(1)2,589

Diplomas

940

250

1,190

Teenage pregnancy

361

315

40

984

Childcare

86

86

Cyberbullying

88

Connexions

241

(1) This is the commitment to 14 November 2007. Additionally, £1.861 million has been spent on the student finance campaign which is now led by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

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