Ministry of Defence: Public Opinion

(asked on 15th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 20th June 2022

Focus groups and polling services are not recorded centrally therefore, costs for the whole of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) cannot be identified. With regards to the MOD communications function and polling, we have counted this as quantitative opinion research, most often on external audiences.

The MOD communications function (across Top Level Budgets) spent:

£199,730 on polling in financial year 2021-22

£108,600 on focus groups in financial year 2021-22

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