Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

Admin Budget

2014/15 £5,588,000

2013/14 £5,657,000

2012/13 £5,538,223

2011/12 £6,047,000m (this includes the internal Communications budget of £703k, in later years this was moved outside of the communications budget area)

Programme Budget

2014/15 £12,888,000

2013/14 £6,046,000

2012/13 £2,700,000

Figures for earlier years are no longer held centrally and will require access to the Department’s previous financial system. I will write to the hon Member with this information once it has been extracted and place a copy of this letter in the libraries of both Houses.