The attached table shows the amount spent by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on paid social media activity in support of Communication Campaigns. This includes the Shared Parental Leave Campaign, to promote take up of SPL among eligible parents, and the National Living and National Minimum Wage Campaign, to increase awareness of the increases in NLW/NMW and of the complaint\u2019s procedure. It also supported awareness of the Green Great Britain Week, setting out how job opportunities would be created by the move to clean growth.<\/p>
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The table is split for each of the following Social Media channels (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) and is shown per month from June 2017 until the end of October 2018.<\/p>
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The Department for Education (DfE) uses digital advertising as a cost effective way to reach target audiences, to deliver awareness and behaviour change campaigns to support government priorities such as recruiting teachers, starting apprenticeships and tackling child abuse.<\/p>
In line with other government departments we buy media space through the government appointed media buying agency, Carat. The majority of our spend is on the department\u2019s teacher recruitment campaign. In the financial year 2017-18, DfE purchased media space on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to the value of £1,581,186.99. In 2018-19 to the end of September we spent £640,931.55. Ad hoc spend may not be included in this amount. On occasion, there may be some spend in certain months which will carry over into the following month.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1523", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Anne Milton"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Guildford"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Anne Milton"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-06T14:53:37.537Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Department for Education: Social Media"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on promoted content on (a) Twitter, (b) Facebook and (c) Instagram in each month since June 2017.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4518", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Tulip Siddiq"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hampstead and Kilburn"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Tulip Siddiq"} ], "uin" : "185023"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997274", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997274/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Digital advertising is a cost-effective way for the government to recruit prison officers, help people find out about the courts process and all the other important information the public needs to be aware of.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Ministry of Justice has spent £171,635.80 on promoted activity with these platforms over the period of 1 June 2017 to 30 September 2018. There may be some spend in certain months which will carry over into the following month. This spend was with Facebook and was to support a number of recruitment campaigns across HMPPS. There was no spend with Twitter or Instagram over this period.<\/p>
<\/p>
It should be noted that we passed our target to recruit an additional 2,500 prison officers by the end of 2018, seven months early, and have now recruited over 3,500 new staff since that commitment was made in October 2016.<\/p>
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Detail of the monthly spend is shown in the table below.<\/p>
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Month<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Total Spend<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jun-17<\/p><\/td> £19,219.20<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jul-17<\/p><\/td> £0.00<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Aug-17<\/p><\/td> £0.00<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Sep-17<\/p><\/td> £0.00<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Oct-17<\/p><\/td> £4,600.00<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Nov-17<\/p><\/td> £360.00<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Dec-17<\/p><\/td> £2,254.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jan-18<\/p><\/td> £3,694.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Feb-18<\/p><\/td> £4,654.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Mar-18<\/p><\/td> £14,854.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Apr-18<\/p><\/td> £71,799.36<\/p><\/td><\/tr> May-18<\/p><\/td> £35,824.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jun-18<\/p><\/td> £6,094.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jul-18<\/p><\/td> £13,834.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Aug-18<\/p><\/td> £5,854.32<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Sep-18<\/p><\/td> £7,811.88<\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Total<\/p><\/td> £171,635.80<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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