UN General Assembly: Somalia

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Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total cost including staff hours was of producing the film on Somalia published by his Department on 27 September 2018 in advance of the UN General Assembly's discussions on that issue.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 17th October 2018

Video clips were produced in-house by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) digital communication team in London. They were published on corporate FCO social media channels and made available to the FCO's global network of Posts overseas for publication on local social media channels. Most of the footage used was filmed by FCO staff or a hired video producer at Post, or supplied by partner organisations such as Department for International Development, the Red Cross or the United Nations at no cost. To maximise the lifetime value of content, footage collected is archived and re-used. With the repeated reuse of archive, it is difficult to provide a precise figure for the costs of footage used in a specific video.

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