Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by John Whittingdale
We do not routinely publish this data, as has been the case under successive administrations. All Business Units within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money.
Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Between January and December 2020, £4,513.25 was spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £6,601.40 was spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
Between January and December 2021, £1,429.91 was spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £4,455.59 was spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
From January 2022 to present, £1,659.10 has been spent on taxi cabs for Ministers using the DCMS Expenses System and Government Procurement Cards. £23,014.25 has been spent on taxi cabs by civil servants.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport spent the following on first class train travel during the requested periods.
April 2020 and March 2021
Ministerial spend - £192.40
Civil Servant spend - £66.70
April 2021 - March 2022
Ministerial spend - £1,054.90
Civil Servant spend - £1,181.40
April 2022 - present
Ministerial spend - £593.90
Civil Servant spend - £492.50
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The Department has spent the following on both agency workers and agency retainer fees through contracts in the past 3 calendar years. Values are exclusive of VAT.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022* |
Agency Worker | £8,403,206.79 | £8,428,918.79 | £4,269,004.52 |
Agency Retainer Fee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
*These figures are taken from 1 January 2022 - 24 August 2022 (to date).
The Department engages contingent labour through Crown Commercial Services Framework’s RM3749, ‘Public Sector Resourcing’ and RM6160, ‘Non Clinical and Temporary Fixed Term Staff’.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
For Ministers, DCMS spent £1,064.99 in 2020, £12,117.80 in 2021 and £6,450.40 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).
For Officials, DCMS spent £57,597.22 in 2020, £34,302.00 in 2021 and £94,579.80 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
Financial Year | Advertising spend* |
2019/2020 | £6,487 |
2020/2021 | £198,540.92 |
2021/2022 | £274,906.72 |
2022/2023 (till date) | £0 |
*Advertising spend only includes money spent on media buying. Spend on marketing activities have been excluded
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Matt Warman
The 21-22 Annual Report & Accounts figures are subject to audit and expected to be published in early November. We are unable to provide data on consultancy spend prior to the conclusion of the audit.
The 20-21 consultancy spend as per DCMS 20-21 published accounts (page 135) was £16.6m. The listing for the £16.6m is set out below and is net of a credit of £1.914m on reversed expenditure.
The 19-20 consultancy spend as per DCMS 19-20 published accounts (page 135) was £3.9m. The listing for the £3.9m is set out below including £0.164m relating to corrections to the data.
Details of all third-party government contracts, including the Supplier, are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector.
20-21 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Amount |
346 Consultancy Limited | 10,080.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 1,000.00 |
ANUBHAV JAIN | 5,000.00 |
Astarte Limited | 1,800.00 |
Bain & Company Inc UK | 906,100.00 |
BBC Accounts Receivable | 13,000.00 |
BDO LLP | 523,076.40 |
Beckford Executives | 500.00 |
Behavioural Insights Ltd | 9,570.00 |
Brick Court Chambers | 5,250.00 |
Cabinet Office (Citi Tr) | 126,718.18 |
Climate Associates | 11,444.00 |
Contemporary Visual Arts Network | 300.00 |
Cornerstone Barristers | - 270.00 |
Corporate Blue Consulting Ltd | 5,700.00 |
David Fogel | 1,500.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 6,600.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 2,512,566.80 |
Dentons UKMEA LLP | 660,208.30 |
Department of Education | 50,400.00 |
Digirep Nigeria Ltd | 12,384.25 |
DLA Piper (Liverpool) | 330,557.49 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | 201,473.12 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (London Office Only) | 32,153.03 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Sheffield Office Only) | 146,966.20 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 8,000.00 |
Economic Insight Limited | 42,000.00 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 19,999.00 |
Ernst & Young (EY) | 2,499,356.70 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 123,880.66 |
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | 111,293.03 |
Faculty Science Limited | 294,500.00 |
Faizal Asher Ismail | 2,500.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 10,212.50 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 5,443.09 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 221,719.00 |
Fujitsu Services Ltd | 133,440.00 |
Georgina Ella Harding Limited | 2,500.00 |
Government Actuary Department | 41,451.17 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 23,851.78 |
Government Legal Department | 17,673.00 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Historic England | - 2,058.34 |
Home Office | 166,725.19 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 13,880.00 |
Intelligent Risks Limited | 6,000.00 |
International Association | 5,628.93 |
Kantar UK Ltd | 23,902.20 |
Knight Frank LLP | 45,000.00 |
KPMG LLP | 159,285.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 16,200.00 |
Linklaters LLP | 136,000.00 |
lnclusion in Arts UK Ltd | 150.00 |
Local Partnerships LLP | 505,031.88 |
Mace Ltd | 47,030.00 |
Modern Art Oxford | 300.00 |
Mr Christopher Knight - 11KBW | 4,301.67 |
Mr George Peretz | 738.00 |
Mr K Latham | 4,999.00 |
NESTA | 26,000.00 |
Oliver Wyman Ltd | 181,500.00 |
ON PURPOSE CAREERS LTD | 30,768.62 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 35,700.00 |
Pentara Consulting Services Ltd | 30,000.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 613,539.58 |
Plum Consulting | 43,250.00 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 3,327,797.80 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | 2,619,488.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 40,800.00 |
Ryan Turner | - 733.50 |
Sarah McFadden | 2,305.20 |
Savills | 4,677.00 |
Scottish Contemporary Art Network - SCAN | 300.00 |
Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service | 10,000.00 |
Slaughter and May | 628,149.24 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLECTIVE LTD | 5,999.99 |
Softcat Plc | 15,245.52 |
Spark Ninety Limited | 45,330.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 35,412.00 |
Tech Grow Limited | 2,500.00 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 324.08 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering | 3,100.00 |
THEM Design Ltd | 4,800.00 |
TLT LLP | 153,119.12 |
University of Cambridge | 4,800.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 1,000.00 |
VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales) | 300.00 |
Veran Performance Ltd | 339,540.00 |
Visual Arts South West | 150.00 |
Webb Search Limited | 17,360.00 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 36,000.00 |
Wysing Arts Charity | 300.00 |
Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts | 300.00 |
Young Samuel Chambers (YSC) Ltd | 14,560.00 |
YunoJuno Ltd | 8,736.00 |
| - 1,941,548.06 |
Grand Total | 16,609,721.82 |
19-20 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Sum of Amount (Posted) |
2T Security Ltd | 72,300.00 |
3 Reasons Ltd | 12,000.00 |
Alistair Lindsay | 16,350.00 |
Annell Howard / Monckton Chambers | - 20.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 8,800.00 |
Birmingham Organising Committee for the | 21,600.00 |
Blackstone Chambers | 1,610.00 |
Bloom Procurement Services Ltd | 75,455.00 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | 14,252.80 |
Classical Numismatic Group LLC | 50.00 |
Climate Associates | 10,760.00 |
Curvestone Ltd | 2,796.00 |
David Fogel | 2,392.25 |
David Miller | 150.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 11,000.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 667,438.40 |
Digital Radio UK (DRUK) | 1,200.00 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | - 570.32 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 12,682.50 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 5,000.00 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 127,406.10 |
Faculty Science Limited | 281,400.00 |
Farrer & Co LLP | 3,882.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 5,700.00 |
Film London | 19,900.00 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 73,783.14 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 99,325.00 |
Global Partners Digital Ltd | 4,000.00 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 100,000.00 |
Government Legal Department | 3,347.50 |
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP | 10,628.18 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 26,880.00 |
Historic England | 4,935.47 |
HM Courts & Tribunals Service | 113,850.00 |
HMRC (VAT payments) | 9,200.00 |
Hogan Lovells International LLP | 99,725.00 |
Home Office (Citi Trf) | 50,000.00 |
ICF CONSULTING SERVICES | 11,268.00 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 24,000.00 |
Ion Industries Ltd | 900.00 |
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd | 94,898.53 |
Joanna van der Lande | 273.10 |
KPMG LLP | 198,000.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 65,233.35 |
Martin Beisly Fine Art Ltd | 791.44 |
Mass Inspire Limited | 5,180.49 |
Matassa Toffolo Ltd | - 926.50 |
MHR International UK Ltd | 2,595.04 |
Ministry of Defence | 1,153.12 |
Miss Laura Smith | 50.00 |
MKF Holdings Ltd t/a China Policy | 62,750.00 |
Moorhouse Consulting Ltd | 25,000.00 |
Morton & Eden Ltd | 50.00 |
Mott MacDonald Ltd | - 0.50 |
Mr George Peretz | 720.00 |
My CSP LTD | 12,464.40 |
Ovum t/a Informa Telecoms & Media Ltd | 21,060.00 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 135,600.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 680,143.56 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 119,232.00 |
QinetiQ Limited | - 16,632.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 19,200.00 |
Rochelais Limited T/a True & North | 1,080.00 |
Ryan Turner | 5,262.50 |
SALESFORCE COM EMEA LTD | 2,311.51 |
Sally Osman | 10,000.00 |
Savills | 187,698.00 |
Social Innovation Camp Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Sotheby's | 150.00 |
Stance | 5,184.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 27,648.00 |
Sundry Supplier - Non Staff Expenses | 832.73 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 2,370.63 |
Thomas Upchurch | 4,999.00 |
University of Cambridge | 4,500.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 5,000.00 |
Venia Consulting Limited | - 1,281.60 |
Who Targets Me Ltd | 1,500.00 |
Xansium Consulting Ltd | 5,998.80 |
| 164,624.96 |
Grand Total | 3,863,931.58 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Matt Warman
The total amount that DCMS spent on litigation services provided by the Government Legal Department and any external law firms and Counsel representing the department was:
(a) £198,557.00 (inc VAT) in 2020
(b) £226,283.10 (inc VAT) in 2021
(c) £197,729.56 (inc VAT) in 2022 (as at 30 June 2022)
These figures do not include the cost of Government Legal Department advice in relation to employment matters or the cost of advice by external firms or Counsel in relation to matters which did not result in litigation.
DCMS has one associated agency, Building Digital UK (BDUK). BDUK has not been involved in any litigation since it was established as an executive agency on 1 April 2022 - before that time any costs would have been included in the figures set out above. The organisation does seek legal advice on various matters including to support internal appeals on subsidy control, commercial matters, and compliance cases during the regular course of business.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Warman
Details of government contracts are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector. As Contracts Finder was implemented from 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.
The Department’s commercial pipeline is also publicly available on the GOV.UK.
The management of contracts held by the Department is devolved to individual Business Units and undertaken by identified Contract Managers within policy or operational teams, with the responsibility for monitoring contract performance resting with the Senior Responsible Officer. The contract management role is typically undertaken by policy or operational staff as part of their existing roles and therefore costs are not distinguishable. Specialist commercial oversight, training and support is provided by the DCMS Commercial function where necessary and as applicable, depending on the level of risk, complexity and value.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Matt Warman
Since 1 January 2020, the Department has not held any contracts with Serco, G4S or Capita. To note, the Department publishes details of all contracts, with a value over £10,000, on Contracts Finder.