Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s transparency data entitled Home Office procurement card spend over £500: March 2023, for what purpose her Delivery Directorate hired an event photographer on 16 March 2023; and whether her Department made an assessment of the potential merits of the creative and video team within her Department’s Communications Directorate carrying out that work.

The photographer was engaged on behalf of the Commissioner for Countering Extremism, to take photographs at an extremism conference in March 2023.

The photographer provided the best value for money and the most appropriate way of meeting the requirements of the event.