Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much expenditure was allocated by his Department in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21, and (d) 2021-22 to (i) internal communications and (ii) the employment of staff to work on internal communications.

The department allocated £0 to internal communications in all of the years listed.

We are unable to provide a breakdown of employment costs for the 3 members of staff that currently work in the internal communications team. The internal communications team is part of the Treasury communications team for which costs have previously be released in UIN 156564, tabled on 20 April 2022 (answered by the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury on 28 April 2022) and UIN 166535 tabled on 10 March 2021 (answer by the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Kemi Badenoch on 15 March 2021).