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1301886

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date	11/03/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many officials in (a) his private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The Digital Communications Team has included approximately 14 members of staff responsible for producing and promoting social media content between 2018 and 2021. We cannot quantify how many other staff in the wider Communications Directorate or wider department as it’s something that many people do as a smaller part of their role.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is continuously tracking and reviewing spending on cross-government campaigns, including Covid-19, to ensure our communications are efficient. We will not spend more than is needed to be effective.</p><p>The Cabinet Office publishes expenditure, including on public information campaigns, on a rolling monthly basis on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> as part of routine government transparency arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 18/03/2021 17:56:35 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1301893

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials in (a) his private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is show in the following table. All members of staff shown work in the wider Department.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of staff</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/03/2021 16:13:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1301894

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials in (a) his private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2021 answer text <p>The Communications directorate is responsible for delivering digital communications on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and supporting the social media activity of an overseas network of embassies. In the years 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-21 between 20 and 30 people have worked in the Communications directorate and key communications hubs to support and deliver digital communications activity. This covers those working to produce and disseminate social media content, deliver social media training, website publishing and social media analytics and evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/03/2021 11:38:02 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1301895

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in (a) his private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>There are no officials in private office allocated to the production and promotion of online content. The digital capability in communications team is not wholly devoted to social media but also deals with content production for other purposes such as design and photography. With that caveat the number of civil servants for whom this is a part of their role for the relevant years is:</p><p> </p><p>2018-19: 4</p><p>2019-20: 5</p><p>2020-21: 6 ( and 1 vacancy)</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 18/03/2021 16:56:34 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1301897

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in (a) his private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>Please find below the information requested:</p><p> </p><p>a) SofS private office – 0</p><p> </p><p>b) Wider Departmental figures are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of officials in the wider Department allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 – 2019</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 – 2020</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020 – 2021</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 18/03/2021 15:59:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones