Frank Website
Education
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what the cost to the public purse was of marketing the Frank website in each year since 2008.
Jeremy Browne (Taunton Deane, Liberal Democrat)
I have been asked to reply
on behalf of the Home Department.
The following table shows Frank marketing spend for each financial year since 2008-09. These figures relate to advertising media costs (e.g. TV, cinema, radio, print, poster and online media) and exclude VAT, production costs and agency fees. They do not include the cost of running the Frank website itself.
| Spend (£) | |
| 2008-09 | 3,770,000 |
| 2009-10 | 3,320,000 |
| 2010-11 | 16,000 |
| 2011-12 | 856.000 |