Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on (a) internal communications and b) employing staff to work on internal communications in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021.

The costs incurred by the central department for the DfT Internal Communications team for the years requested are as follows:

a) Non pay costs for internal communications

2019: £224,481

2020: £262,479

2021: £176,401

b) Pay costs for internal communications

Pay costs include full pay costs (including salary, employee contributions, pension), and also any posts which subsequently became vacant during the financial year.

2019: £568,098

2020: £679,780

2021: £606,689