To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on advertising by (a) the Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years. (139516)

The expenditure on advertising for the Home Office, including the Border and Immigration Agency, and the Identity and Passport Service and the Criminal Records Bureau, for the requested period, is in the following table.

For both the Home Office and IPS, advertising for recruitment is accounted for as part of recruitment and selection costs and is not included in the figures above.