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176326

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Admin Budget</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 £5,588,000</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 £5,657,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 £5,538,223</p><p> </p><p>2011/12 £6,047,000m (this includes the internal Communications budget of £703k, in later years this was moved outside of the communications budget area)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Programme Budget</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 £12,888,000</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 £6,046,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 £2,700,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for earlier years are no longer held centrally and will require access to the Department’s previous financial system. I will write to the hon Member with this information once it has been extracted and place a copy of this letter in the libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/02/2015 14:48:00 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176335

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>My Department is responsible for cross-Government communication as set out in the Annual Government Communication Plan. As part of our long-term economic plan we have substantially reformed Government communications since the 2010 General Election, abolishing the Central Office of Information and ensuring that Government communications activity is better coordinated and more effective. Thanks to these reforms we have halved the cost to taxpayers of government communications since the 2010 General Election. The NAO has confirmed that Government made savings of £378 million in each of the last two financial years on proactive paid-for communications, compared to a 2009-10 baseline. This is based on proactive (paid-for) communications spend of £589m in 09/10, £216m in 12/13 and £210m in 13/14.</p><p> </p><p>My department regularly publishes data on: <a href="http://www.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.data.gov.uk</a> showing how public money has been spent and how government is performing against its objectives and goals.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 02/02/2015 17:45:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176350

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Communication with stakeholders and the public is a part of the job of all Treasury teams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The costs of running HM Treasury Communication department, including all staff and running costs have more than halved since 2009/10. The figures are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2009/10 £2,612,258</p><p> </p><p>2010/11 £2,196,291</p><p> </p><p>2011/12 £2,122,484</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 £1,269,977</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 £1,289,075</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/03/2015 10:40:55 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176363

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department has delivered significant reductions in communications spending compared to the last Labour Government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Communications administration spend</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Administration spend includes media monitoring, printing costs for Parliamentary publications and training, but excludes staff costs. Spending was:</p><p>2008-09: £2.6 million; 2009-10: £2.0 million; 2010-11: £637,000; 2011-12: £480,000; 2012-13: £347,000; 2013-14: £326,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Marketing and advertising spend</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This includes all spending on marketing and advertising activities. Spending was:</p><p>2008-09 £12.7 million; 2009-10: £9.9 million; 2010-11: £898,000; 2011-12: £980,000; 2012-13: £2.4 million; 2013-14: £2.0 million.</p><p><br>We anticipate final 2014-15 spend will be in the region of 2013-14 spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The marketing and advertising figures can be found in my written answer to the hon. Member of 19 March 2015, Question 222568.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To place this all in context, communications activity under the last Labour Government, including departmental spending such as:</p><p>· £1.1 million a year on external public relations, despite having 103 in-house communications officers;</p><p>· £15,000 on plugging the “Sustainable Communities summit” that was subsequently cancelled;</p><p>· £1 million on marketing and public relations for eco-towns, despite the fact not a single house was ever built;</p><p>· £3,520 on re-naming Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services to the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, during one of New Labour’s republican phases of purging public references to the Monarchy;</p><p>· £38,200 on sock puppet lobbyists, LLM Communications, astro-turfing friends for the friendless Regional Spatial Strategies;</p><p>· £1,371 on re-branding of John Prescott’s ‘Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’ to the pointless ‘Deputy Prime Minister’s Office’;</p><p>· £3,830 on the subsequent logo for the new Department for Communities and Local Government, followed by burning a further £24,765 on dropping the “D” and renaming it “Communities and Local Government”, despite being neither, in a futile attempt to sound achingly trendy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have run a tighter ship. Right to Buy and the Fire Kills campaign are now the two primary campaigns we run, and both have a clear public benefit, in strong contrast to the culture of spin and excess in the spendthrift Labour years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/03/2015 12:08:04 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176369

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The department’s budgets for Publicity and Communications – excluding pay costs are set out below:</p><p>2010/11 - £1,099k</p><p>2011/12 - £966k</p><p>2012/13 - £674k</p><p>2013/14 - £283k</p><p>2014/15 - £403k</p><p> </p><p>Budgets in 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 reflect the costs associated with the preparation for, and delivery of, the hugely successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>The budget for 2014/15 has been increased to provide for the work associated with the planned events at home and abroad to commemorate the centenary of the First World War</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 26/03/2015 09:16:10 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant previous answer version 42442 answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176386

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The following table outlines the communications outturn for the Ministry of Defence excluding trading funds for the financial years (FY) 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15. Figures for full year 2014-15 are not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>FY 2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>£ 66.554 million</p></td><td><p>£72.628 million</p></td><td><p>£80.673 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>For comparison, the outturn for FY 2009-10 was £94.136 million.</p><p> </p><p>The figures above all include salaries and advertising and marketing for the Armed Forces.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 222570 question first answered 02/03/2015 16:16:55 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 43006 answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon answering member 88
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176401

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has very significantly reduced the cost of its communications since 2010. The Department coordinates communications activities centrally to ensure they are focused and effective, using low-cost campaigns whenever practical. Paid-for marketing has been used to support several important campaigns including: encouraging people to come forward as adopters and foster parents; encouraging parents to take up the extension of free childcare to two-year-olds; and the Your Life campaign to ensure young adults acquire knowledge in maths and science.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have a specific budget solely for advertising, which is included within the total communications spending below.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s total communications spending for each requested financial year is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£36,746,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£28,639,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£7,163,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£3,683,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£3,658,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 222571 question first answered 04/02/2015 10:27:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176405

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s communications budgets for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15 are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>2010-11</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p><p><em>(£K)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Communications budget</p></td><td><p> </p><p>5,500</p></td><td><p> </p><p>4,200</p></td><td><p> </p><p>3,400</p></td><td><p> </p><p>3,700</p></td><td><p> </p><p>4,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures above are the total budgets of the Department’s communications directorate, excluding any marketing and advertising costs.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/02/2015 16:18:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176426

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's communications budget was in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The table below sets out the Core Department’s communications budget in the years requested. The figures shown represent the total cost of the Department’s Communications Directorate, including both pay and non-pay costs. The Directorate is responsible for both internal and external communications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Communications</strong></p><p><strong>Budget (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>14.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>13.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 02/02/2015 11:14:40 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176442

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <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> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/02/2015 15:26:02 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones