Cabinet Office: Facebook

(asked on 26th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's transparency data entitled Expenditure over £25,000 - September 2018, if he will list the marketing goods and services that were purchased from Facebook under transaction number 20000547.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 5th November 2018

The total cost of Facebook invoice 2000547 was £44,219.20. The costs incurred refer to three pieces of activity bought via the Cabinet Office’s credit account with Facebook between 1 - 13 July 2018. They were:

Description of advertising activity

Total cost on invoice

Video content explaining the government’s 12 principles for negotiating with the European Union.

£40,000.00

Video content explaining the government’s announcement of over £20 billion extra a year in real terms by 2023/4 for the NHS

£3,944.39

Content promoting UK Government services available in Scotland, by the Scotland Office

£274.81

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