The following public relations companies have been employed since 2004/05. Most of these companies have been procured via the Central Office of Information (COI). External public relations companies are used for raising public awareness on specific issues and are only used where the internal specialism is not available.
Company Area of work 2009/10 BIS (including former BERR and DIUS) Four Communications Vulnerable Workers, Family Rights, Consumer Tipping Awareness and National Minimum Wage campaigns Cohn and Wolfe Employing People campaign; Climate Change and Media Audit Fishburn Hedges Employee engagement campaign Consolidated Student Finance and Employability Kindred Science (So What? So Everything) and Informal Adult Learning Grayling Iawards Band and Brown FE Colleges Week Forster Academic Freedom Debates 2008/09 BERR Cohn and Wolfe Employing People campaign Flexible working campaign Trimedia Harrison Cowley Consumer Protection Regulations campaign Highlight PR Queen's Awards campaign Gavin Anderson Renewable Energy campaign 2008/09 DIUS Consolidated Student Finance and Employability Kindred Science (So What? So Everything) Band and Brown FE Colleges Week Cohn and Wolfe Climate Change Forster Academic Freedom Debates 2007/08 BERR Geronimo Communications Enterprising Britain campaign Gavin Anderson (UK) Ltd. Renewable energy campaign GCI London Employing People campaign Highlight PR Queen's Awards campaign Trimedia Harrison Cowley Ltd. Fireworks safety campaign Consumer Protection Regulations Campaign 2007/08 DIUS Consolidated Student Finance and Employability 2006/07 DTI GCI London Business Link campaign Fishburn Hedges Gap Analysis campaign Gavin Anderson (UK) Ltd. DTI Renewable Energy campaign Geronimo Communications SBS Enterprising Britain campaign 2005/06 DTI Wright Communications Consumer Direct campaign Harrison Cowley Consumer Direct campaign Gavin Anderson (UK) Ltd. DTI Renewable Energy campaign Geronimo Communications SBS Enterprising Britain campaign GCI London SBS Interim campaign PR activity DTI 2004/05 GCI London DTI Best Practice Portfolio Metrica DTI Best Practice Media Evaluation Fishburn Hedges DTI Dispute Resolution campaign Porter Novelli Ltd. DTI Renewables Broadsystem SBS Sunday Times Enterprise Network Sponsorship
The Department does not hold centrally the information you request on non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and this could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
I have approached the Chief Executives of the Insolvency Service, Companies House, the National Measurement Office and the Intellectual Property Office and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 2 March 2010:
The Minister of State, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked me to reply to your question which public relations companies have had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body, (ii) executive agency since 2004.
The following public relations companies have had contracts with The Insolvency Service since 2004: GfK NOP and Laura McCaffrey Editorial.
Letter from Gareth Jones, dated 26 February 2010:
I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010, UIN 319766 to the Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Companies House has not had contracts with any public relations companies since 2004.
Letter from John Alty, dated 26 February 2010:
I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Since 2004, The Intellectual Property Office, an executive agency of BIS, has had contracts with the following three (3) public relations companies:
Prowse & Co
Bell Design
Eulogy.
Letter from Peter Mason, dated 15 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010 to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, asking which public relations companies have had contracts with the Department and its Executive Agencies since 2004.
The then National Weights & Measures Laboratory, at that time an Executive Agency of the DTI, had a contract with Icas PR, 4 The Waterhouse, Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1 EN, which ran from May 2004 to July 2005. The Agency has had no contracts with public relations companies since that date.