Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of digital posts in her Department were vacant on 26 February 2024.
Answered by Greg Hands
As part of the 2022 to 2025 roadmap, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10% of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025. This is to drive modernisation and digitisation in Government, improving public services for the British people and saving taxpayer money.
Overall, good progress has been made with total current vacancies in the Department for Business and Trade at 24% (91 vacancies). To further support recruitment, the department has an internal dedicated team to lead the end-to-end recruitment process and access recruitment agency support where required.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals her Department and its predecessor Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for Business and Trade has centrally managed subscriptions for the Economist and the Financial Times for financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24. Information on locally sourced and managed subscriptions is not routinely collected and to make it available could only be done at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for Business and Trade has centrally managed subscriptions for the Economist and the Financial Times for financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24. Information on locally sourced and managed subscriptions is not routinely collected and to make it available could only be done at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals her Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
The department does not specifically hold data for the types of publications listed in this question.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department and (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
The department does not specifically hold data for the types of publications listed in this question.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much funding (a) her Department and (b) its predecessor Department has (i) budgeted for and (ii) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Graham Stuart
Please see the below costs with reference to the PQ, that were searched under the following account names:
Department/ Year | Sum of invoice amount (£) |
BEIS |
|
FY 21/22 | 1,264,235.55 |
FY 22/23 | 510,338.09 |
FY 23/24 | 172,144.24 |
DESNZ |
|
FY 23/24* | 227168.96 |
*Post MoG ledgers were not split until September 2023, so figures pre this date can include some former BEIS spend.
Please be advised that the data above is actual spend, we do not hold any data for budgeted spend relevant to the proposed question.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of digital posts in her Department were vacant on 26 February 2024.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
How many roles were vacant: 10.
What proportion of all digital posts were vacant: 17%.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many and what proportion of digital posts in her Department were vacant on 26 February 2024.
Answered by Graham Stuart
There are 19 vacancies in the digital directorate among 178 posts. We do not centrally hold information on Digital posts and vacancies around the Department.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of digital posts in her Department were vacant on 26 February 2024.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Based on the information currently available, there are 37 digital vacancies that have been approved for recruitment. This is 29% of overall digital roles. These vacancies sit in the core digital directorate and may not reflect all digital vacancies across the department.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals her Department and its predecessor Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The department does not hold comprehensive information to the level of detail requested.