The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Central Office of Information. I have asked the chief executive to reply.
Letter from Alan Bishop, dated 30 January 2009:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question [247596] Government expenditure on public relations, advertising and marketing on figures held by COI for year from 1995 to 2005.
These are listed in the table below.
Year £ million 1995-06 76 1996-07 81.2 1997-08 68.6 1998-09 126.7 1999-2000 148.6 2000-01 227.1 2001-02 196.7 2002-03 189.8 2003-04 233.6 2004-05 251