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.
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