Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.

The table below sets out the information requested in respect of the Core Department. It shows frontline expenditure by Defra’s Communications function. A comparatively small amount of expenditure on advertising (on items such as specialist recruitment) is also incurred by areas of the Core Department other than Communications, but to identify such expenditure would incur disproportionate cost.