Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on the purchase of televisions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has not purchased any televisions in the periods stated.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The Department's database management system does not record this information in a way that can extract the information asked for. To identify this information for each employee would incur disproportionate cost. Pay awards for civil service departments are limited to an average of up to one percent of overall paybill costs.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The following items were either lost or stolen in the years in question:
2013: four laptops and three BlackBerrys
2014: three laptops