Departments: Publicity

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years.

Barry Gardiner
From its inception in 2001 to 2003-04, the Department did not record separate advertising costs as part of its overall communications expenditure. The figures for key advertising campaigns from 2004-05 are as follows.

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|       |Advertising campaign |Amount (£)|
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|2004-05|Personal food imports|92,343    |
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|2005-06|Personal food imports|94,278    |
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|2006-07|Personal food imports|81,732    |
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|2005-06|Avian flu            |185,976   |
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The Department undertakes all of its advertising through the COI’s rosters of advertising agencies.