Catering
(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
Expenditure on catering and hospitality in the run up to 2012 was influenced by the requirements associated with the successful delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, after which spending returned to modest levels, this set out below:
Financial Year | Central DCMS spending £s | Olympics & Paralympics spending £s | Total DCMS spending £s | ||||
2010-11 | 27,555 | 19,241 | 46,796 | ||||
2011-12 | 21,400 | 90,951 | 112,350 | ||||
2012-13 | 19,148 | 104,084 | 123,232 | ||||
2013-14 | 7,415 | 200 | 7,615 | ||||
Total |
| 113,199 |
| 195,234 |
| 308,434 | |
The central DCMS spending figure over the last four years has been significantly lower than the figures between 2007 and 2010. In each of those financial years the figure was over £65,000 and in 2009-10 it was £82,076. In just four years, this spending figure has been cut by some 90 per cent, demonstrating this Government’s determination to avoid the worst excesses of the past.