Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on phone bills each of the last 5 years.
The table below details the department’s spend, by telephony type, on bills over the last five years for the period 1 April 2017 – 31 March 2022. The table highlights the breakdown on a financial year (April – March) basis.
Financial Year/Service | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 |
Mobile Telephony | £651,220.09 | £492,834.91 | £240,573.06 | £374,504.50 | £280,877.58 |
Fixed Line Telephony | £661,250.81 | £491,787.50 | £619,918.22 | £219,930.80 | £65,537.20 |
Soft Phone Telephony | N/A | N/A | £1,022.04 | £66,229.95 | £152,634.64 |