Public Relations: Expenditure

Grant Shapps
To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners how much was spent by the Commissioners on public relations in each of the last five years.

Sir Stuart Bell
The Commissioners’ share of the cost of the National Church Institutions’ Communications Department and the cost of producing and printing their annual report (which is not purely a public relations exercise but also a statutory document) have, in the last five years, been as follows.

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|    |Total cost (£)|
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|2002|146,023       |
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|2003|124,200       |
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|2004|120,724       |
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|2005|135,675       |
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|2006|168,797       |
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