Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office budgets are devolved to London departments and overseas posts so there is no central Departmental budget for communications and to establish this figure would incur disproportionate cost. Budget outturns for the period requested for the central Communications Directorate, and for the preceding year for comparison, are as follows:

09/10: 4,510,480
10/11: 2,686,945
11/12: 2,189,789
12/13: 2,131,324
13/14: 2,037,680
14/15: 1,698,461

Between 2009-10, the last year of the previous administration, and 2014-15, costs have been reduced by 62%.