Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022, for what purpose that Department twice spent £20,200 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 17 November 2022.

The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.

All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.