Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department paid to the Behavioural Insights Team in each year since 2014.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has only existed since July 2016. Therefore, this response includes the amounts paid to the Behavioural Insights Team by the two former Departments: Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Since 2014, our best estimate of what BEIS, BIS and DECC paid the Behavioural Insights Team was a total of £3,665,802.84. The total amount paid per year is provided below.

2014: £362,403.00

2015: £1,451,576.24

2016: £1,285,063.60

2017 (as of 08/09/2017): £566,760.00

Included in these figures is spend on skills projects. This may also be included in Department for Education’s (DfE) spend as some of former BIS’s policy areas moved to DfE in July 2016.