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Written question asked by Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 29 June 1999, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 13 July 1999. It was answered by Baroness Morris of Yardley (Labour) on Tuesday, 13 July 1999 on behalf of the Department for Education and Employment.

Dept for Education and Employment

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 19th April, Official Report, column 435, on action zones, if he will list actual and planned expenditure in each of the last three financial years by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) market research, (b) conferences, (c) direct mail, (d) advertising and publicity, (e) opinion polling, (f) web sites, (g) hospitality, (h) central administration costs and (i) external consultants and advisers in relation (1) to local recruitment measures, (2) literacy at Key Stage 3, (3) numeracy at Key Stage 3, (4) summer numeracy schools, (5) family numeracy, (6) work-related learning, (7) social inclusion-pupil support, (8) education of travellers and displaced persons and (9) expanding local authority music services. - Inc table (holding answer 2 July 1999).
Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 19 April 1999, Official Report, column 435, on action zones, if he will list actual and planned expenditure in each of the last three financial years by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) market research, (b) conferences, (c) direct mail, (d) advertising and publicity, (e) opinion polling, (f) web sites, (g) hospitality, (h) central administration costs and (i) external consultants and advisers in relation (1) to local recruitment measures, (2) literacy at Key Stage 3, (3) numeracy at Key Stage 3, (4) summer numeracy schools, (5) family numeracy, (6) work-related learning, (7) social inclusion-pupil support, (8) education of travellers and displaced persons and (9) expanding local authority music services. [89622] Ms Estelle Morris: [holding answer 2 July 1999]: Expenditure is as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1998 1999- 2000 1999- 2000 Actual Actual to date Planned (a) Market Research 0 0 0 (b) Conferences 254,735 11,359 27,000 (c) Direct Mail 3,496 0 0 (d) Advertising and Publicity 124,825 0 0 (e) Opinion Polling 0 0 0 (f) Website 0 0 10,000 (g) Hospitality 1,220 638 2,550 (h) Central Administration Costs 539,693 123,555 459,664 (i) External Consultants and 219,202 36,900 176,593 Advisers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. No details are available prior to the financial year 1998-99--the first zones started work in September 1998. We cannot provide a further breakdown of the figures into categories 1-9 above because this information is not held by the department and/or identifying it would incur disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
89622; 335 c166-7W
Session
1998-99
Subjects
Disadvantaged Administration Finance Education Market research Travellers Literacy Opinion polls Conferences Education action zones Numeracy
Contains statistics
Yes