Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, what the cost to the public purse is of the No. 10 Downing Street photographer.

It has been the case under successive governments that civil servants and special advisers provide assistance on communications. We are now in a digital age, where social media and digital communications are an essential part of government. It is already in the public domain that there is a cross-Government resource, who document the work of government in this regard. Some information can be found in the Annual report on Special Advisers published on gov.uk. The salary of a non-Senior Civil Service member is their personal information and would not be appropriate to release under data protection provisions.