Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Luton South dated 28 June 2023.
Answered by Jesse Norman
A response was sent on 12th July.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer from the Minister of State to the Question from the hon. Member for Luton South of 13 October 2022, Official Report, column 234, when he plans to respond in more detail on Luton station.
Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
I wrote to the Hon Member on 3 November 2022 regarding Luton Station, on behalf of my predecessor, following the question of 13 October 2022.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on (a) internal communications and b) employing staff to work on internal communications in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The costs incurred by the central department for the DfT Internal Communications team for the years requested are as follows:
a) Non pay costs for internal communications
2019: £224,481
2020: £262,479
2021: £176,401
b) Pay costs for internal communications
Pay costs include full pay costs (including salary, employee contributions, pension), and also any posts which subsequently became vacant during the financial year.
2019: £568,098
2020: £679,780
2021: £606,689
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on (a) producing digital and video content, (b) employing in-house staff to produce that content and (c) paying external companies and people to produce that content in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
(a) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
(b) The information requested on in-house staff cost is not recorded in the level of granularity sought. However, we currently have four members of staff in the creative content team who all work on producing digital and video content as part of their roles. Please refer to the department’s Annual Report and Accounts for more information on staff salaries, if required: (Page 141 onwards: Annual Report and Accounts 2020–21 (publishing.service.gov.uk))
(c) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) photographers and (b) video producers were employed by his Department in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The breakdown for video producers employed by the Department for Transport is as follows; in 2019 one video producer, in 2020 two video producers and in 2021 two video producers.
No photographers were employed by the Department for Transport between 2019 and 2021.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent in total on external recruitment consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; how many full time equivalent posts were filled as a result of that expenditure; and how many of those posts were filled by people recruited from outside the civil service.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Due to the financial reporting system in the department it is not possible to separate out spend associated with external recruitment constancy services from all other consultancy spend for the majority of departmental recruitment.