To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what percentage of his Department’s expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. (182987)

My Department’s committed spending on campaign advertising in the current financial year, procured through the Central Office of Information, is £881,482.27, as at 8 February 2008.

My Department’s total spending on recruitment advertising, to date, since 1 April 2007, procured through the Central Office of Information is £9,681.53, as at 8 February 2008.

Detail of other advertising expenditure is not held centrally. It is thus not possible to express this figure as a percentage of overall expenditure.