Communication
(asked on 28th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
Communications expenditure may arise as part of a project or programme and corporate plans do not seek to allocate budgets to all communications activities specifically. Information available on communications expenditure is provided.
The cost of communications which includes internal communications, website and other digital communications, strategic communications and planning, marketing and public information campaigns and partnerships, publishing, speechwriting, news media and press work and associated staff costs for the Department and its Executive Agencies for the financial year 2013/14 is, on a like for like basis, 75% less than the £63.1m recorded for 2009/10.
Cost of Communications 1 (£m) | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Department for Transport (Central) | 9.53 | 10.05 | 8.02 | 9.03 |
Driving Standards Agency 2 | 0.68 | 0.43 | 0.82 | 0.65 |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 4.00 | 1.20 | 1.65 | 1.67 |
Government Car and Despatch Agency 3 | Nil | Nil | Nil | - |
Highways Agency | 5.14 | 4.32 | 3.29 | 3.22 |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency | 0.71 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.68 |
Vehicle Certification Agency | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.04 | n/a |
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency 2 | 0.35 | 0.34 | 0.43 | 0.40 |
Total | 20.50 | 16.99 | 14.94 | 15.65 |
1. Statutory public notice advertising and classified advertising such as recruitment advertising are not included in the communications function expenditure above.
2. The Driving Standards Agency and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency became the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in April 2014.
3. The Government Car and Despatch Agency ceased on 30 September 2012.
Estimates for 2010/11 and 2011/12 were compiled for inclusion in Quarterly Data Summaries published by the Department and the 2012/13 and 2013/14 estimates were prepared using definitions from the Operational Efficiency Programme.