Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public Expenditure

(asked on 24th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on (a) art, (b) wine and (c) hospitality in each of the last seven financial years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018

Figures for hospitality can be found in the table below. Wine is not purchased independently but included within catering expenditure on hospitality. It is not possible to identify the cost of wine within amounts paid and accrued for hospitality catering.

Financial Yr

Hospitality

Catering

H&C

201718 YTD

23,017

23,400

46,417

2016/17

10,130

42,068

52,199

2015/16

-3,415

13,059

9,644

2014/15

35,860

54,432

117,145

2013/14

3,816

14,920

18,735

2012/13

17,980

37,475

55,455

2011/12

39,788

31,527

71,315

2010/11

40,573

1,371

41,943

Total

167,749

218,251

386,000

We do not hold figures for spending on art, separate from the Government Art Collection

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