Departmental Advertising Mr. Hunt To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which projects undertaken by his Department have incurred expenditure of more than £1,000 on advertising in the last 12 months; and what the respective spend is in each such case. Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 22 February 2010]: In 2009, my Department spent more than £1,000 on advertising the public appointments listed: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Public body and role |£ (VAT inclusive)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Arts Council England, National Members |6,700 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |BBC Trust, Member |16,562 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |British Library, Chair |15,372 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Chair|10,043 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |English Heritage, Chair |6,351 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Horserace Betting Levy Board, Chair |13,314 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National Museum of Science and Industry, Chair |16,432 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Olympic Lottery Distributor, Member |2,000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |S4C, Member |11,403 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |United Kingdom Anti-Doping, Chair and Members |17,980 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |United Kingdom Film Council, Chair |7,521 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further to this, the Government Olympic Executive spent £5,551.96 in March 2009 advertising for a speech writer and £4,830.08 in September 2009 for a communications officer. In October 2009, £4,242.61 was spent on advertising three human resources positions and £8,906.15 on two finance positions.