Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Communication

(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of her Department's total spend on communications for (a) 2023, (b) 2022, (c) 2021, (d) 2020 and (e) 2019.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 15th November 2023

The Department publishes its expenditure on publicity, marketing and promotion in the annual report and accounts. The expenditure is summarised in the table below.

Financial Year

Core Department and Agencies (£000)

Defra Group (£000)

2022-23

1,073

18,047

2021-22

675

14,813

2020-21

1,157

16,701

2019-20

1,740

19,830

2018-19

1,758

20,828

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