Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his 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.

The information requested is not separately identified within our accounting system. To attempt to extract the data would be at disproportionate costs.

You may wish to know that as part of the Government’s transparency agenda, all Departments publish details of spend over £25,000. Data is published one month in arrears and can be found within the link below: www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend.