Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department and its agencies in each of the last six years; and what the total cost of those bonuses was.
Answered by Margot James
As part of the Government’s transparency agenda, departments publish annual information on the number of awards and spend on end-year and in-year Non-Consolidated Performance Related Pay. This information can be found on the department’s website and on data.gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-non-consolidated-performance-related-payments-for-the-appraisal-year-2015-to-2016.
Information for future years will be published in the usual way.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which (a) external data analysts and (b) data collection companies his Department has used in each of the last five years.
Answered by Margot James
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much money his Department has spent on hospitality in each of the last five years.
Answered by Margot James
Hospitality figures for each of the last five financial years have been provided in the table below.
2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
£16,994.41 | £35,859.68 | -£2,954.15 | £19,280.11 | £31,786.37 |
The figure for 2015-16 is a negative figure due to the reversal of an over accrual from 2014-15.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of his Department's agencies entered into contracts with Strategic Communication Laboratories in each year since 2010.
Answered by Margot James
We have held no such contracts. Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive
Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of its agencies has entered into contracts with Cambridge Analytica since 2012.
Answered by Margot James
We have held no such contracts. Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive
Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.