Department for Education: Telephones

(asked on 31st March 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 22nd April 2022

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

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