Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Since September 2014 until March 2015, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s advertising and communications expenditure was as follows:
· A national awareness campaign for superfast broadband (December 2014 - March 2015). Expenditure included the media buying costs (e.g. the airtime for TV/press adverts) as well as production costs for adverts (TV/radio/digital/out of home), social media activity and a toolkit of materials for local authorities.
· As part of the Government’s Business is GREAT campaign, the Department carried out advertising aimed at small businesses to encourage them to take up a grant for superfast broadband connection for their businesses. This ran September - December 2014 and comprised media buying costs (out of home posters, local press advertisements and radio airtime) and production costs (e.g. photography, fees, printing).
· Design was commissioned for digital media activity, in support of other on-going communications campaigns (improving mobile coverage and free Wi-Fi in public buildings) as the Department does not have its own in-house design team.
The breakdown of expenditure by month, by invoiced date is attached.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) other organisations receive Christmas cards from his Department.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
As in previous years DCMS did not spend any money sending Christmas cards.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Expenditure on catering and hospitality in the run up to 2012 was influenced by the requirements associated with the successful delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, after which spending returned to modest levels, this set out below:
Financial Year | Central DCMS spending £s | Olympics & Paralympics spending £s | Total DCMS spending £s | ||||
2010-11 | 27,555 | 19,241 | 46,796 | ||||
2011-12 | 21,400 | 90,951 | 112,350 | ||||
2012-13 | 19,148 | 104,084 | 123,232 | ||||
2013-14 | 7,415 | 200 | 7,615 | ||||
Total |
| 113,199 |
| 195,234 |
| 308,434 | |
The central DCMS spending figure over the last four years has been significantly lower than the figures between 2007 and 2010. In each of those financial years the figure was over £65,000 and in 2009-10 it was £82,076. In just four years, this spending figure has been cut by some 90 per cent, demonstrating this Government’s determination to avoid the worst excesses of the past.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on take-away food for staff since May 2010.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The DCMS’ finance information system does not identify expenditure for take away food separately. Therefore this information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on transporting, installing and removing works of art from the Government Art Collection for the display of artwork in his Department since May 2010.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Provision of figures for each financial year and each display covered by the PQ would incur disproportionate costs. The table below identifies the spend in each financial year since May 2010 for transporting, installing and removing works of art for Government Art Collection (GAC) displays in Government buildings in the UK and abroad. The figures also include transport from GAC to and from framers and/or conservators, to and from galleries/individual artist studios and incorporates packing, crating, art handling, transport, installation and de-installation.
Year | Transport for ongoing GAC display and conservation | |
| UK | Overseas |
| £ | £ |
2010-11 | 58,520 | 64,597 |
2011-12 | 63,798 | 40,004 |
2012-13 | 93,896 | 32,103 |
2013-14 | 62,854 | 81,373 |
2014-15 | 57,806 | 79,309 |