To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many complaints about advertisements sponsored or funded by her Department were made to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in each year from 1997 to 2008; and how many of these were upheld by the ASA in each year. (246644)

This information is held by the Advertising Standards Authority and is in the public domain. I therefore refer the hon. Member to the ASA, and to the archive of their adjudications maintained at:

www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/public

For broadcast advertising complaints prior to 2004, I refer the hon. Member to the public affairs unit at Ofcom.