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Departmental Marketing

Volume 480: debated on Friday 17 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what advertising campaigns his Department has run since June 2004; and what the (a) date and (b) cost was of each of these. (227037)

Promotional campaigns, including those using advertising, are funded from the Department’s central Advertising and Publicity Budget and from individual programme budgets held by policy directorates.

Advertising is part of a full integrated promotional campaign. The question refers specifically to advertising and we have been able to separate the Department’s spend on advertising, as this is centrally placed through the Central Office of Information. The cost of recruitment advertising for the Department has not been included as it is not possible to establish a definitive figure, except at disproportionate expense. The Department’s advertising spend and that of its predecessor (DFES) since 2004 is set out as follows, with a breakdown of individual campaigns. All figures exclude VAT.

DFES advertising billing 2004/05

Campaign title

Media total (£)

EMA 2004/05

3,853,254

Sure Start Month 2004/05

127,002

Adult Basic Skills Gremlins 2004/05

4,664,833

Teenage Pregnancy (DFES) 2004/05

980,127

Student Finance 2004/05

886,727

Fast Track Teaching 2004/05

69,342

Foundation Degrees 2004/05

483,463

DFES Childcare 2004/05

281,269

Need to Know 2004/05

275,116

DFES Parents Centre 2004/05

172,284

DFES total

11,793,417

DFES advertising billing 2005/06

Campaign title

Media total (£)

DFES Sure Start 2005/06

2,527

EMA 2005/06

1,261,310

Teenage Pregnancy 2005/06

1,298,991

Childcare Recruitment 05/06

590,758

DFES Adult Basic Skills—Gremlins 2005/06

1,514,280

DFES Adult Basic Skills—Gremlins Miscellaneous 2005/06

125,687

Student Finance 2005/06

2,130,459

DFES Parents Centre 2005/06

142,771

ECM Press Advertising 2005/06

1,984

Foundation Degrees 2005/06

634,353

Fast Track Teaching 2005/06

17,806

DFES Parenting Franchise (Direct Gov Launch) 2005/06

439,878

DFES Education and Learning—Launch Campaign 2005/06

85,479

Need to Know 2005/06

53,971

DFES total

8,300,254

DFES advertising billing 2006/07

Campaign title

Media total (£)

Student Finance 2006/07

2,476,295

Adult Basic Skills 06/07

1,805,199

Teenage Pregnancy 2006/07

1,533,980

Childcare Recruitment 2006/07

404,664

Children and Young People’s Workforce Insert 2006/07

45,123

Drugs—Frank 2006/07 (Home Office project also)

245,629

Total

6,510,890

DCSF advertising billing 2007/08

Campaign title

Media total (£)

Childcare 2007/08

134,943

City Challenge 2007/08

52,707

DCSF Sponsored Parenting Phase 1 2007/08

24,568

STEM 2007/08

285,075

MFL 2007/08

87,209

School Food Trust 2Q07/08

377,419

Frank 2007/08 (DCSF only)

632,533

Teenage Pregnancy 2007/08

1,499,163

Skills Pledge June 2007

34,781

Diplomas 2007/08

1,459,491

Total

4,587,889

DCSF advertising billing 2008/09 (costs invoiced to date)

Campaign title

Media total1 (£)

Diplomas 2008/09

867,615

Who Do We Think We Are 2008/09

2,433

National Year of Reading 2008/09

108,984

Teenage Pregnancy 2008/09

291,616

DCSF—MFL 2008/09

854,408

DCSF Summer Holidays Affordable Childcare 2008/09

202,543

DCSF Media Only Campaigns 2008/09

19,973

Total

2,347,572

1 2008/09 figures refer to costs invoiced to date and not actual DCSF spend.