Departmental Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much his Department has spent on advertising in each month since it was first established; how much his Department has spent on advertising each of its programmes in each month since its establishment; and how much of such expenditure was incurred in respect of each advertising medium. (243999)

The Department has funded the Higher Education Student Finance Campaign. Details are provided in the following table:

£
	TV	Radio	Online	Press	Total
2007
November	1,209,482	340,964	124,284	114,853	1,789,583
December	12,518	88,585	23,791	89,444	214,338

2008
January	—	122,362	82,183	17,834	222,379
February	—	—	20,517	—	20,517
March	—	—	23,117	—	23,117
November	1,180,000	193,734	90,541	24,443	1,488,718
December	—	—	20,143	6,268	26,411

All costs are gross media.

Volume 485: debated on Thursday 18 December 2008