Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to Answer of 26 January to Question 141530, how much his Department has spent on (a) communications, (b) advertising and (c) marketing in each month since 1 August 2020.

Following best practice set out in the Government Communications Service (GCS) Modern Communications Operating Model (MCOM), the Office is resourced to deliver all of the communications functions and activities expected and required of a government department in its own right and on behalf of the UK Government in Scotland.

(a) Total Office expenditure in each month from August 2020 to December 2020, including staffing, on delivering all of these functions was:

(b) & (c) The Office delivers public information campaigns in Scotland to communicate important messages to the public, such as national awareness campaigns and policy initiatives. Total Office expenditure in each month from August 2020 to December 2020, promoting public information was: