Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.
Focus groups and polling services are not recorded centrally therefore, costs for the whole of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) cannot be identified. With regards to the MOD communications function and polling, we have counted this as quantitative opinion research, most often on external audiences.
The MOD communications function (across Top Level Budgets) spent:
£199,730 on polling in financial year 2021-22
£108,600 on focus groups in financial year 2021-22