To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost to the public purse was of staff responsible for (a) brand management and (b) marketing at (i) HM Revenue and Customs, (ii) his Department, (iii) the Office for National Statistics, (iv) the Debt Management Office, (v) the Royal Mint, (vi) the Office for Government Commerce, (vii) the Government Actuary's Department and (viii) the Valuation Office Agency in 2006-07. (153923)

Available Paybill costs in the financial year of 2006-07 were as follows:

The Treasury does not have a brand management or marketing team. Maintaining the Treasury's corporate identity is one of the roles of the Communications team.

Information relating to GAD, DMO, OGC and VOA is not readily available and could be provided at disproportionate cost only.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for (a) brand management and (b) marketing at (i) HM Revenue and Customs, (ii) his Department, (iii) the Office for National Statistics, (iv) the Debt Management Office, (v) the Royal Mint, (vi) the Office for Government Commerce, (vii) the Government Actuary’s Department and (viii) the Valuation Office Agency. (153924)

The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by HMRC, HMT, ONS, DMO, Royal Mint, OGC, GAD and the VOA for (a) brand management and (b) marketing are:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much (a) HM Revenue and Customs, (b) his Department, (c) the Office for National Statistics, (d) the Debt Management Office, (e) the Royal Mint, (f) the Office for Government Commerce, (g) the Government Actuary's Department and (h) the Valuation Office Agency spent on (i) stationery, (ii) business cards and (iii) building signs in each year since 1997. (153929)

The following information is available without incurring disproportionate cost. All figures are presented in thousands, including irrecoverable VAT.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department and its agencies’ corporate identity; and what the estimated cost of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines is. (153930)

Estimates of the cost of complying with corporate identity guidelines are not held and could not meaningfully be performed without incurring disproportionate costs. The following information is available on the estimated costs of producing guidelines. Copies of the relevant guidelines have been laid in the Library of the House.

HM Treasury

HM Treasury’s guidelines on corporate identity were produced internally, at minimal cost.

HM Revenue and Customs

The estimated cost of producing HM Revenue and Customs’ style guide was £44,000.

Valuation Office Agency

The Valuation Office Agency’s guidelines on corporate identity were produced internally, at minimal cost.

Royal Mint

The Royal Mint is introducing a new corporate identity and new guidelines for staff are expected to be available later this year. The estimated cost of producing the guidelines is £40,000.

Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics has a set of guidelines for its corporate identity, produced in 1999-2000. The cost of producing them is not readily available and could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

National Savings and Investments

The latest version of NS and I’s corporate identity guidelines were produced in 2004 at an estimated cost of approximately £25,000.

Office of Government Commerce

The OGC design and web guidelines were produced in 2004 at a cost of £12,225.

OGCbuying.solutions

The cost of producing OGCbuying.solutions’ product brand guidelines in 2004 was £9,000. Due to a change in accounting system, the cost of producing the corporate guidelines in February 2003 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The Debt Management Office does not produce corporate identity guidelines.