Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) full time equivalent headcount and b) outturn expenditure on communications for his Department was in each of the last three financial years.
The number of Departmental staff delivering communications functions was 80.4 full time equivalent (FTE) in 2019/20, 112.2 FTE in 2020/21 and 117.4 FTE in 2021/22. Expenditure on communications staffing was £4,336,000 in 2019/20, £4,941,000 in 2020/21 and in 2021/22, forecasted spend is approximately £5,200,000.