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Departmental Publicity

Volume 468: debated on Monday 3 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been spent by his Department on advertising in the last 12 months. (167959)

The amount spent on armed forces recruitment advertising in financial year 2006-07 was as follows:

Force

Amount spent on recruitment advertising (£ million)

Naval service

4.828

Army

23.248

RAF

4.344

Details of civilian recruitment advertising costs are not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate costs.

Advertising costs in financial year 2006-07 with regard to raising awareness of veterans issues were £62,970.

It should be noted that the aforementioned figures take no account of Departmental PR activities.