The core departmental expenditure on advertising initiatives for the past four available financial years are listed in the following table:
Campaign Financial year Spend (£) Are you Doing Your Bit 2002-03 141 Illegal Imports 2002-03 293,143 Illegal Meat Imports 2003-04 119,146 FMD Exercise 2004-05 4,145 Passports for Horses 2004-05 46,719 Climate Change 2005-06 661,120 Environment Direct 2005-06 221,337 Illegal Food Imports 2005-06 75,030 Climate Change 2006-07 627,216 One Planet Living 2006-07 459,659 Environment Direct 2006-07 89,773 Illegal Meats 2006-07 38,582
This includes communications on a wide range of matters, much of it necessary or beneficial to the public and the wide range of industries in which DEFRA has an interest, together with local government, voluntary organisations and other bodies.
Individual records of spend for DEFRA’s non-departmental public bodies, agencies and financially sponsored organisations are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.