Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons he has leased Ystradffin Farm, Rhandirmwyn, Llandovery SA20 0PG.
Answered by Jake Berry
A lease, in the name of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has been taken, on behalf of the Home Office, to accommodate infrastructure for the new Emergency Services Network (ESN).
The site at Ystradffin Farm was identified by the ESN Programme as a suitable location for a 22.5m Extended Area Service (EAS) lattice mast. Planning for the site has been submitted but not yet granted.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has provided to local authorities on responding to freedom of information requests on preparations for the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Government has not issued guidance to local authorities on freedom of information (FOI) requests on preparations for leaving the European Union. It has provided guidance to members of local resilience forums who had received FOI queries on no deal planning.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of its agencies has entered into contracts with Cambridge Analytica since 2012.
Answered by Jake Berry
Please see answer to Question UIN 134008, answered on 29 March 2018.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 Jake Berry
The Department and its Arms Length Bodies’ records show no contracts were held with these suppliers for these periods.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in his Department with responsibility for social media are employed on an (a) full and (b) part-time basis.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The Department does not employ any full or part time members of staff with the sole responsibility for social media.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2017 to Question 3402, if he will publish the scoring and evaluation conducted by his Department of its social media advertising campaigns since January 2016.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Since January 2016, the Department for Communities and Local Government’s social media advertising has been used to support delivery of the government’s priorities of supporting increased homeownership and informing voters of the regional mayoral elections held in May 2017.
As with all government communications, social media advertising is evaluated as part of overall campaign delivery to ensure objectives are met and provides value for money.
Based on independent evaluation of the homeownership campaign activity:
Awareness of the campaign on homeownership rose from 32 per cent to 43 per cent.
As a result of seeing our advertising, 41 per cent claimed to have taken action with 62 per cent reported they are saving for a deposit (up from 55) and 33 per cent said they are likely to use a government home-buying scheme to buy a home in the next 4 years.
Of council tenants who were aware of the Right to Buy element of this campaign, 46 per cent went on to take further action as a result of the campaign. Those reporting they would use the scheme in the next 4 years rose from 26 per cent to 37 per cent.
On the mayoral election campaign:
There was a 15 per cent increase in awareness of the elections among the target audience.
420,000 web page views(www.gov.uk/ourmayor), and 12,000 users engaged and visited the register to vote page to take further action.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2017 to Question 3402, on advertising, how much of that spend was (a) through Carat Ltd and (b) on the departmental procurement card.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Government advertising is purchased by our media buying agency, Carat Ltd. Carat has held the contract for UK government media buying since January 2015. There has been no spend on the departmental procurement card.