PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Education: Information Officers (14 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on communications and media staff in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and how much her Department expects to have spent on such staff in 2016-17.

Asked by:
Angela Rayner (Labour)

The Department for Education communications group spent £2,395,172 in the financial year 2014-15, £2,175, 580 in 2015-16 and will spend £2,662,236 in 2016-17 on staff. The last figure has increased due to the department taking on HE and FE work.

This is substantially lower than communications staff costs in 2010-11 which were £4,360,283.

Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
19 December 2016