Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's publication of spending over £500 using a government procurement card in October 2023, published on 28 December 2023, for what purpose the training for which Heliguy were paid £749.50 on 11 October 2023 will be used; what type of equipment the participants were trained to use; and what the cost to his Department's Communications Directorate was of purchasing that equipment.

This training was conducted with the purpose of staff being legally allowed to operate a range of small drones in certain scenarios to capture video content.

Having drone filming capabilities is standard practice within the video production industry and it’s important our team maintain industry standard skills.