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Cabinet Office Expenditure

Volume 327: debated on Thursday 18 March 1999

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Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his answer of 17 December 1998, Official Report, columns 724–24, if he will list the expenditure not included in his answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. [71030]

Mr. Hoon

[holding answer 15 February 1999]: The information sought regarding the expenditure incurred by my agencies and non-departmental bodies is in the table.On behalf of my Department, £422,000 has been expended with the Central Office of Information for the production of a lay magistrates' recruitment campaign which began on 15 March 1999. This sum included national media placement in newspapers and magazines.

Publications and publicity expenditure agencies and non-departmental bodies

  • (1) The Court Service
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) This amount could only be provided at a disproportionate cost as staff recruitment is carried out within local budgets and therefore the overall cost is not readily available.
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil
  • (2) The Northern Ireland Court Service
  • (a) £10,000 (public opinion research)
  • (b) £14,844 (primarily staff recruitment—newspaper advertising)
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil
  • (3) The Public Trust Office
  • (a) £2,922 (public opinion survey on Charter standards)
  • (b) £6,874 (staff recruitment—newspaper advertising)
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) £68,823—see table
  • (e) Nil.

    • The Public Trust Office—Publicity expenditure

    Department

    £

    Protection Division

    Printing of booklets (includes Handbook for Receivers, EPA booklet, Fees, Duties of Reciever etc)28,300.10
    Newsletter15,195.00
    43,495.10

    Receivership Division

    Printing of booklets (includes Charter Statement, Information for Nursing Homes etc)2,500
    2,500

    Trust Division

    Printing of Charter Statements2,063
    2,063

    Court Funds Office

    Printing of Charter Statements and Newsletter3,695
    3,695

    Corporate Publications

    Printing of Annual Report, Business Plan, Corporate Plan and How to Complain Leaflet12,069
    12,069
    Total63,823

  • (4) The Public Record Office
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) £178,000 (of which £177,200 was expended for staff recruitment)
  • (c) £220 (mailing labels)
  • (d) £13,000
    • 'Preserving our Common Past for our Children's Future' (£5,000)
    • Readers' Bulletin (£6,000)
    • Education leaflet (£2,000)
  • (e) Nil
  • (5) Her Majesty's Land Registry
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) £97,657 for newspaper advertising (of which £61,000 relates to staff recruitment)
  • (c) £9,988
  • (d) £328,800 (including exhibitions and video production)
  • (e) £38,640. A breakdown per item could only be provided at a disproportionate cost. However, £24,128 relates to the design and printing of literature (included in (d)) and £4,955 relates to advertising placed through the COI (included in (b)).

  • (6) The Legal Aid Board
  • (a) £11,197
    • public awareness survey of legal aid and of LAB franchising (£7,197)
    • survey of legal aid practitioners re: services provided by LAB (£4,000)
  • (b) £513,635
    • staff recruitment—newspaper (£481,937)
    • staff recruitment—radio (£868)
    • Franchising freephone number (£30,830)
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) £399,187 (see below)
  • (e) £2,177—for displaying legal aid information on videotaxt screens and the Internet.

    • The Legal Aid Board

    Publicity expenditure

    £

    General1,196
    Press Cuttings3,878
    Duty Solicitor Newsletter868
    Focus Newsletter to legal aid Practitioners (seven issues)115,032
    Leaflets/Posters:
    'How to get free or low cost legal help'141,304
    'A practical guide to legal aid'
    'Criminal legal aid at the police station and in court'
    'What happens next?' leaflet7,998
    'Customer care—Legal Aid Board' leaflet2,564
    'Paying back the Legal Aid Board—the Statutory Charge'3,429
    'If you need this [LAB logo] look for this [franchising logo]'36,017
    Design of franchising logo876
    Posters and leaflets advertising the clinical negligence exclusive franchise launch33,462
    'Mediation—reaching agreements over divorce and separation' leaflet and poster15,051
    Conferences—national mediation launch14,000
    Regional Legal Services Committees—shaping the future of legal aid'5,969
    RLSC information pack12,518
    'Representations—what we do when you think legal aid should not be granted' leaflet2,008
    Duty Solicitors posters3,017
    Total399,187

  • (7) The Law Commission
  • (a) £3,685 (public opinion survey on empirical research on aspects of the law of damages)
  • (b) £4,678 (staff recruitment—newspaper advertising)
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil
  • (8) The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC)
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) Nil
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) £2,560
    • 'Guide to making an application' (£1,324)
    • 'The Committee: It's work and it's membership' (£1,236)
  • (e) Nil
  • (9) The Judicial Studies Board
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) Nil
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil
  • (10) The Magistrates' Court Service Inspectorate
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) £8,994 (staff recruitment)
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil
  • (11) The Civil Justice Council
  • (a) Nil
  • (b) Nil
  • (c) Nil
  • (d) Nil
  • (e) Nil.