To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which (a) advertising agencies and (b) other organisations supplied consultancy services for advertising campaigns for (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies in each of the last five years; and what the cost of these services was. (139448)

Information on the advertising agencies and other organisations that have supplied consultancy services for advertising campaigns for HM Treasury, National Savings and Investments and the Office for National Statistics is not readily available and could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

The Royal Mint considers that release of this information could compromise its commercial position.

All the Treasury’s other agencies have not used advertising agencies or other organisations supplying consultancy services for advertising campaigns in the last five years.