To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what advertising campaigns his Department has run since July 2004; and what the (a) date and (b) cost was of each. (81919)

For expenditure on advertising campaigns run by the Department through the Central Office of Information from July 2004 until April 2006, the figures are as follows. Figures include Small Business Service, but exclude VAT.

(The Department does not centrally collect information on other campaigns, including those by non-departmental public bodies, and to do so would entail disproportionate cost.)