{"value":{"id":1458828,"askingMemberId":4417,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-04-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-04-25T00:00:00","uin":"156497","questionText":"To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on communications staff in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4057,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-04-26T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Staffing costs for the Government Communication Service within the Cabinet Office, including No10, were approximately £18.3m in 2019-20, £25.1m in 2020-21 and £27.2m in 2021-22. Over this period, the Cabinet Office has responded to extraordinary national and global events, such as COVID-19 and UK Transition, through the running of large centralised public information campaigns.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The figures provided include staff loaned or seconded from other government departments who supported the centralised public information campaigns.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Staffing costs for the Government Communication Service within COP26 was approximately £623,000 in 2020-21 and £1.2m in 2021-22.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Cabinet Office: Information Officers","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1458828","method":"GET"}]}