Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.

DCLG has cut spending on marketing and advertising from £9.9 million in 2009-10 to £2.0 million in 2013-14. We anticipate that spending in 2014-15 will be broadly in line with 2013-14.