Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of her Department's total spend on communications for (a) 2023, (b) 2022, (c) 2021, (d) 2020 and (e) 2019.
The Department publishes its expenditure on publicity, marketing and promotion in the annual report and accounts. The expenditure is summarised in the table below.
Financial Year | Core Department and Agencies (£000) | Defra Group (£000) |
2022-23 | 1,073 | 18,047 |
2021-22 | 675 | 14,813 |
2020-21 | 1,157 | 16,701 |
2019-20 | 1,740 | 19,830 |
2018-19 | 1,758 | 20,828 |