To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much his Department has spent on placing advertisements in (a) weekly and (b) regional newspapers in each of the last five years. (277067)

The following was spent on regional press advertising by the former DTI and its agencies via the Central Office of Information:

The following was spent by the Department on national and regional press advertising via the Central Office of Information, but cannot be broken down to show only spend on regional newspapers: