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==Political communications==
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[[Labour Party]] might refer to:
 
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*[[Labour Party (UK)]]
 
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*[[Labour Party (Ireland)]] - originally known as [[Páirtí an Lucht Oibre]]
Central Office of Information spending on public relations, marketing and advertising now costs £391
 
million a year, more than three times the rate that Labour inherited.
 
 
 
COI Spending £
 
1997–98 £111 million
 
1998–99 £173 million
 
1999–2000 £200 million
 
2000–01 £295 million
 
2001–02 £273 million
 
2002–03 £267 million
 
2003–04 £317 million
 
2004–05 £343 million
 
2005–06 £322 million
 
2006–07 £338 million
 
2007–08 £391 million
 
 
 
The first year of the current Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] has coincided with a 16% rise in the cost of Government advertising, marketing and publicity. Government advertising has also attracted particular controversy this year, when the Home Office abused the marketing funds by funding newspapers advertisements on police during the local elections “purdah”
 
period, mirroring the Labour Party’s own campaigning.
 
 
 
There has also been an historic trend of COI advertising strangely rising just before an expected general election <ref> Government Communication report with evidence published 26-January-2009[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldcomuni/7/7.pdf House of Lords: Select Committe on Communication], Accessed 26-January-2009 </ref>
 
 
 
==Resources==
 
*[[New Labour: Donors]]
 
*[[New Labour: Special Advisers]]
 
 
 
==References==
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 13:13, 14 October 2009