Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department spent on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) national newspaper advertisements, (d) local newspaper advertisements, (e) social media advertising and (f) other types of advertising in each year since 2010.

During this period my Department has incurred expenditure on public notices and recruitment for public office. While the Department does not hold details of the amounts spent split by the categories requested, the expenditure solely relates to advertisements in the local and national press; the totals are set out below: