PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Transport: Marketing (19 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultancy services including (i) communications, (ii) advertising, (iii) marketing and (iv) media buying since 1 March 2020.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

For the core department, the amount incurred for consultancy from 1st March – 31st October 2020 is £53m. As with previous years, the majority of this is in relation to large scale transport infrastructure programmes. £96k out of the £53m relates to spend on Marketing and Communications Consultancy.

Consultancy is defined as the provision of objective advice relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation, in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such advice is provided outside the ‘business-as-usual’ environment when in-house skills are not available and is time-limited. The numbers quoted here are from unaudited internal management accounting information.

Answered by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
24 November 2020