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Departmental Advertising

Volume 472: debated on Monday 3 March 2008

To ask the Solicitor-General what percentage of her Department’s expenditure was on advertising in each of the last 10 years. (183002)

Details of expenditure which can be given without incurring disproportionate costs are given in the following table:

CPS

RCPO

SFO

T Sol1

2000-01

0.1

2001-02

0.3

2002-03

0.3

2003-04

0.025

0.2

2004-05

0.04

0.083

0.1

2005-06

0.10

0.0

0.105

0.2

2006-07

0.07

0.07

0.127

0.2

1 Includes Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and the Attorney General’s Office.

Note:

Expenditure on advertising has been mainly in relation to recruitment.

The specialist Bona Vacantia division of the Treasury Solicitor’s Department regularly places advertisements in the press seeking kin in cases where individuals have died intestate with no apparent claimants to the estate under administration. The costs for this activity are treated as an expense on the Crown Nominee’s Account that is presented separately to Parliament.