Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of photography services to his Department provided by external contractors was in each year since 2010.

A full departmental response could only be provided at disproportionate cost as the information requested is not held centrally. The Department has in-house capability to provide photographic services for a wide range of tasks. External photograph services would only be used in exceptional circumstances where that in-house capability was not available for a specific task.