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    "content": "Although we wrote to all Ministries to provide this information, as you may note, not all the Ministries responded. The total advertisement expenditure for the 23 Ministries since 2005 amounts to Kshs974,224,134. I will table the breakdown as requested by the hon. Member in Schedule 1 of this document immediately I finish answering this Question. It is important to note that the trend on advertisement expenditure for the 2005/2006 and 2010/2011 financial years by the 23 Ministries varies from one year to another, depending on the number of activities to be implemented in a given financial year. The activities that require advertisement include tendering, recruitments, public awareness campaigns, launching of public programmes and call for public or stakeholders’ fora, among others. The expansion of Government to 42 Ministries has also contributed to the increase in advertisement expenditure. (b) I hereby also table in Schedule II the list of top 20 Ministries in spending for the financial years under review based on the 23 responsive Ministries. The Office of the President’s list in the Government expenditure is about Kshs207 million while the Ministry of State for Special Programmes spending list is Kshs1.8 million. (c) As stated earlier, the Ministry of Information and Communications has no control over advertisement expenditures in other Ministries, departments and agencies. The Ministry is, therefore, not able to table the contractual documents as requested since other Ministries are not mandated to report or request any clearance from my Ministry. However, all Ministries are expected to follow Government guidelines in procuring advertisement services in the media houses."
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