Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recruitment advertising his Department has purchased through the Government contract with Manning Gottlieb Omni Media Group in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26.

The following information relates to spend by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) on the Pan Government contract with Manning Gottlieb Omni Media Group; the Army uses Capita for all recruitment advertising.

Spend in 2023-24 was £29.949 million and in 2024-25 was £32.268 million. Royal Navy and RAF advertising budgets for 2025-26 have not yet received final Cabinet Office approval so are unable to be confirmed at this time.