Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"My hon. Friend is delivering a searing indictment of this Budget. Does he agree that the intention of the farm tax may have been to take in multimillionaire so-called “slipper farmers”, but in rural constituencies like his and mine, it is hitting tenant farmers?..."
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Written Question

Department for Work and Pensions: Public Relations

Friday 7th February 2025

Asked by: John Cooper (Conservative - Dumfries and Galloway)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its Arm’s Length Bodies has spent on external public relations since 5 July 2024; and which firms that funding went to.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

Public relations activity is a subset of communication spend. As such, this data is not held. The Government Communication Service encourages the prioritisation of low and no cost public relations activities wherever possible.

It is recommended that all external communications support should be procured through approved government frameworks, with strict controls in place to ensure cost-effectiveness.

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Written Question

Department for Work and Pensions: Media

Friday 20th December 2024

Asked by: John Cooper (Conservative - Dumfries and Galloway)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much their Department spent on (a) media and (b) voice training for Ministers since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

At the time of writing, there has been NIL spend on this type of training for ministers.

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