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<p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office budgets are devolved to London departments and
overseas posts so there is no central Departmental budget for communications and to
establish this figure would incur disproportionate cost. Budget outturns for the period
requested for the central Communications Directorate, and for the preceding year for
comparison, are as follows:</p><p>09/10: 4,510,480<br>10/11: 2,686,945<br>11/12: 2,189,789<br>12/13:
2,131,324<br>13/14: 2,037,680<br>14/15: 1,698,461</p><p>Between 2009-10, the last
year of the previous administration, and 2014-15, costs have been reduced by 62%.</p>
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