Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spends per month on (a) staffing and (b) staffing primarily related to communications, advertising and marketing.

In the last financial year, 2019-20, the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland (OSSS) and Office of the Advocate General (OAG) Annual Report and Accounts reported total spend of £9,427,000 in staff costs, including wages, social security, pensions, and VAT charged on staffing costs where applicable. This equates to a monthly average expenditure on staffing of £785,583.

In the same financial year, £1,071,553 was spent on staffing costs for staff primarily responsible for media, digital, and stakeholder communications and public information campaigns for OSSS and OAG. This equates to a monthly average expenditure of £89,296.