Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

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

The department’s budgets for Publicity and Communications – excluding pay costs are set out below:

2010/11 - £1,099k

2011/12 - £966k

2012/13 - £674k

2013/14 - £283k

2014/15 - £403k

Budgets in 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 reflect the costs associated with the preparation for, and delivery of, the hugely successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

The budget for 2014/15 has been increased to provide for the work associated with the planned events at home and abroad to commemorate the centenary of the First World War