Departmental Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of her Department’s expenditure was on advertising in each year since establishment. (182984)

The requested figures are as follows. The majority of advertising investment by the Department and agencies is in support of the THINK! Road Safety, Act on CO₂ and Continuous Registration (vehicle taxation) campaigns.

	Total public expenditure (£ million)	Advertising expenditure (£ million)	Percentage
2002-03	11,726	18.8	0.16
2003-04	13,086	20.9	0.16
2004-05	13,391	18.9	0.14
2005-06	13,371	21.2	0.16
2006-07	15,838	24.0	0.15

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 26 February 2008