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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the (a) date, (b) cost and (c) purpose of each advertising campaign commissioned by his Department and its predecessors was in each of the last two years. [164503]
Kevin Brennan: Advertising campaigns commissioned by the Department in 2006-07 ( Department for Education and Skills) and 2007-08 ( Department for Children Schools and Families) are in the following table.
Additionally in 2007-08, 1.861 has been spent on student finance advertising, a campaign which has now moved across to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
As advertising campaigns often run in phases, with different media used over different periods in each phase, it would only be possible to give specific dates for each campaign (beyond the financial year in which they fell) at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department and his predecessors spent on advertising and promotional campaigns in each year since 1997. [164505]
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.
Spend from the advertising and publicity budget since 1997 is set out in the following table. 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 costs.
Amount £000 | |
(1 )To 31 October 2007. |
The spend on promotional campaigns from individual policy directorate programmes cannot be separately identified, except at disproportionate cost. However, it is possible to separate all 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 as set out in the following table.
The Departments advertising spend since 1997 is:
Amount £000 | |
(1) This is the commitment to 4 November 2007. Additionally, £1.861 million has been spent on advertising which is now led by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. |
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of questions tabled for answer on a named day to his Department received a substantive answer on the day due in the last year for which figures are available. [162613]
Kevin Brennan: The Departments PQ tracking system is currently unable to break down the data requested and to do so would incur disproportionate cost. This Department aims to ensure that Members receive a substantive response to their named day question on the named day, and endeavours to answer ordinary written questions within a working week of being tabled. Unfortunately, this is not always possible but this Department makes every effort to achieve these timescales.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of questions tabled to his Department for answer on a named day received a substantive reply on the day named since the establishment of his Department. [163191]
Kevin Brennan: The Department's PQ Tracking System is currently unable to break down the data requested and to do so would incur disproportionate cost. This Department aims to ensure that Members receive a substantive response to their named day question on the named day, and endeavours to answer ordinary written questions within a working week of being tabled. Unfortunately, this is not always possible but this Department makes every effort to achieve these timescales.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department on first class train tickets in the last 12 months. [163097]
Kevin Brennan: The spend on first class rail tickets in the 12 month period October 2006 to September 2007 for the former Department for Education and Skills was £4,026,649.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools in each local education authority area applied for expansion in each year since 1996-97; how many requests were granted in each year; and if he will make a statement. [163441]
Jim Knight: Schools may expand for a number of reasons; for example, to meet population growth, to accommodate pupils from other local schools which have closed, or to meet parental demand for additional places.
The following tables sets out the number of statutory proposals to expand that were published and approved
in each local authority from September 1999 to 9 November 2007. Information prior to the introduction of the local decision making regime in September 1999 is not sufficiently reliable. There were no expansions in the local authority areas not listed in the table. Decisions on expansion proposals are taken by the local authority or by the schools adjudicator. Before 25 May 2007, decisions were taken by the School Organisation Committee rather than the local authority.
The Government are not involved in deciding expansion proposals, but do make available capital funding to encourage successful and popular schools to expand. The Government have allocated £35 million to enable 16 popular and successful schools to expand since June 2003.
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