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Departmental Marketing

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost was of (a) internet and website design and hosting, (b) print media design and (c) broadcast media of each of his Department's public information campaigns since 1997. (214727)

To provide the breakdown of costs incurred by the Northern Ireland Office on public information campaigns from April 1997 to March 2000 would incur disproportionate costs; however, the overall costs for these years are as follows:

£

1997-98

262,083.75

1998-99

428,390.82

1999-2000

Nil

The breakdown of costs from April 2000 to date is contained in the following table:

Internet and website design and hosting (£)

Print media design (£)

Broadcast media (£)

2000-01

0.00

11,802.08

0.00

2001-02

8,364.24

12,483.18

0.00

2002-03

36,489.03

11,470.88

97,043.25

2003-04

40,598.43

24,798.22

56,088.55

2004-05

15,418.13

52,324.48

140,564.66

2005-06

12,556.25

48,554.44

196,842.23

2006-07

11,005.16

95,863.97

40,758.93

2007-08

19,476.60

154,793.00

165,720.68

2008-09

822.50

816.63

0.00

Total

144,730.34

412,906.88

697,018.30