To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the cost to public funds of the Government advertising campaign on the poll tax carried out by the agency Ogilvy and Mather in Scotland.

The expenditure by my Department on the public information campaign on the community charge including the production and household distribution of the recent booklet, has been £480,566.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to introduce legislation to provide for imprisonment for wilful refusal to pay the poll tax in Scotland.

No.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to seek to make the community charges registration officers answerable to him on questions of the compilation of the register and the notice given to responsible persons.

No.