Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211704 on World Economic Forum: Advertising, how many contracts his Department has signed in the past two years with advertisers or advertising suppliers; and how many of those contracts include a non-disclosure or confidentiality clause of the kind referred to in that Answer.

The activity referenced in Question 211704 was composed of contracts which prohibited the release of their contents to a third party.

The Department has signed three contracts with media buying agencies in the last two years and all of these contain standard clauses relating to transparency which do not fetter our ability to disclose appropriate information. Individual business units within the department have delegated authority to spend up to £10,000 on local contracts without central recording and the terms of these contracts are not held centrally.