Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on communications staff in each year between 2010 and 2016.
Answered by David T C Davies - Secretary of State for Wales
The total salary costs (including National Insurance and pension costs) spent on communications staff between 2010-11 to 2015-16 is shown below:
Financial Year | Salary Costs* (£) |
2010-11 | 201,848 |
2011-12 | 262,350 |
2012-13 | 326,146 |
2013-14 | 183,271 |
2014-15 | 350,637 |
2015-16 | 330,759 |
* The spend on salaries includes staff on maternity leave and those covering their post in their absence.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on communications staff in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.
Answered by David T C Davies - Secretary of State for Wales
The total salary costs (including National Insurance and pension costs) spent on communications staff in 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 is shown below:
Financial Year | Salary Costs £ |
2016-17 | 312,560 |
2017-18 | 282,381 |
2018-19 | 344,975 |
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on communications staff in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.
Answered by David T C Davies - Secretary of State for Wales
The total salary costs (including National Insurance and pension costs) spent on communications staff in each of the last 3 financial years is shown below:
Financial Year | Salary Costs (£) |
2019-20 | 376,547 |
2020-21 | 392,857 |
2021-22 | 452,481 |
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many communications staff are employed by his Department (a) full time, (b) part time and (c) on flexible working arrangements as of 19 April 2022.
Answered by Simon Hart - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
There are six full-time communications staff employed by the office. One further member of staff works part-time. Of the six full-time staff members, one has formal flexible working arrangements although all staff members have the option to work flexibly.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
What recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 on the ability of the Senedd to legislate effectively in devolved policy areas.
Answered by Simon Hart - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
The UK Internal Market Act has not taken a single power away from the devolved administrations.
What it has done is protect seamless trade within our United Kingdom which is vital to Welsh business and the Welsh economy, with Wales selling more to the rest of the UK than to the rest of the World put together.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in each month since July 2017.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has not spent any money on social media advertising since July 2017.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many records his Department holds that have reached the time limit for their transfer to the National Archives but have not been transferred.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales does not hold any records that have reached their time limit for transfer to the National Archives.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department and its agencies in each of the last six years; and what the total cost of those bonuses was.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
As part of the Government’s transparency agenda, departments publish annual information on the number of awards and spend on end-year and in-year Non-Consolidated Performance Related Pay. This information can be found on the Office of the Secretary for Wales’s website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=office-of-the-secretary-of-state-for-wales&publication_type=corporate-reports
Information for future years will be published in the usual way.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much money his Department has spent on hospitality in each of the last five years.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The amount spent hospitality in the Wales Office for the last five financial years is shown below:
Financial Year | Spend on Hospitality |
2012-13 | Nil |
2013-14 | Nil |
2014-15 | 8,439 |
2015-16 | Nil |
2016-17 | Nil |
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of his Department's agencies entered into contracts with Strategic Communication Laboratories in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Wales Office has not entered into any contracts with Strategic Communication Laboratories.