Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has given the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield in grants in the last five years.
Answered by Ian Murray - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
DCMS has not provided any funding directly to the National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME) in the last five years. The Department provides funding to the Science Museum Group (SMG) with agreement that SMG in turn provides an annual grant payment to NCMME. This provision of grant funding is managed directly between SMG and NCMME and the annual amounts are published as part of the SMG accounts.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff her Department has seconded from Hakluyt since July 2024.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
DCMS has zero such secondments. Secondments are one way of bringing talent and experience into the civil service for short periods of time, and have been used by successive governments.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of their Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
DCMS has not seconded any employees from the places listed.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff her Department has seconded from Palantir since July 2024.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
No staff in DCMS have been seconded from Palantir since July 2024.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by John Whittingdale
We do not routinely publish this data, as has been the case under successive administrations. All Business Units within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money.
Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Between January and December 2020, £4,513.25 was spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £6,601.40 was spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
Between January and December 2021, £1,429.91 was spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £4,455.59 was spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
From January 2022 to present, £1,659.10 has been spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £23,014.25 has been spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport spent the following on first class train travel during the requested periods.
April 2020 and March 2021
Ministerial spend - £192.40
Civil Servant spend - £66.70
April 2021 - March 2022
Ministerial spend - £1,054.90
Civil Servant spend - £1,181.40
April 2022 - present
Ministerial spend - £593.90
Civil Servant spend - £492.50
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The Department has spent the following on both agency workers and agency retainer fees through contracts in the past 3 calendar years. Values are exclusive of VAT.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022* |
Agency Worker | £8,403,206.79 | £8,428,918.79 | £4,269,004.52 |
Agency Retainer Fee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
*These figures are taken from 1 January 2022 - 24 August 2022 (to date).
The Department engages contingent labour through Crown Commercial Services Framework’s RM3749, ‘Public Sector Resourcing’ and RM6160, ‘Non Clinical and Temporary Fixed Term Staff’.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
For Ministers, DCMS spent £1,064.99 in 2020, £12,117.80 in 2021 and £6,450.40 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).
For Officials, DCMS spent £57,597.22 in 2020, £34,302.00 in 2021 and £94,579.80 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
Financial Year | Advertising spend* |
2019/2020 | £6,487 |
2020/2021 | £198,540.92 |
2021/2022 | £274,906.72 |
2022/2023 (till date) | £0 |
*Advertising spend only includes money spent on media buying. Spend on marketing activities have been excluded