Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022 up to and including 28 February; and on which platforms that money was spent.

Our publicly available transparency data includes the spend information requested. Social media is a cost effective way of ensuring the public benefit from the policies and programmes of department and all spend represents value of money:

DLUHC: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250

MHCLG: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mhclg-departmental-spending-over-250