Departments: Advertising

Mr. Heath
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much revenue his Department received from advertisements on its (a) public information leaflets and (b) public websites in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Thomas
The only publication that DFID has received advertising revenue from is the free quarterly magazine “Developments”. Due to changes in accounting practices, figures are only available from 2003 onwards. To establish figures from 1997 onwards would incur disproportionate cost. “Developments” magazine only accepts advertising from educational or training institutions. The figures are given in the following table.

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|    |£        |
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|2003|19,787.00|
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|2004|30,455.66|
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|2005|29,025.80|
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|2006|42,524.20|
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Figures are not yet available for 2007.

DFID has never run any adverts on its corporate website.