Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

My Department is responsible for cross-Government communication as set out in
the Annual Government Communication Plan. As part of our long-term economic
plan we have substantially reformed Government communications since the 2010
General Election, abolishing the Central Office of Information and ensuring
that Government communications activity is better coordinated and more
effective. Thanks to these reforms we have halved the cost to taxpayers of
government communications since the 2010 General Election. The NAO has
confirmed that Government made savings of £378 million in each of the last two
financial years on proactive paid-for communications, compared to a 2009-10
baseline. This is based on proactive (paid-for) communications spend of £589 million
in 2009/10, £216million in 2012/13 and £210m in 2013/14.

My department regularly publishes data on: www.data.gov.uk showing how public
money has been spent and how government is performing against its objectives
and goals.