Department for Education: Communication
(asked on 6th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its arm’s length bodies has spent on external communications through (i) Crown Commercial Service agreement RM6125 and (ii) other agreements since 5 July 2024; and which firms have received funding.
Total spend on external communications from 5 July 2024 to 6 March 2025 is £35,478,270.30.
This includes the following spending:
- Core department: £35,342,797.68.
- The Education and Skills Funding Agency: £3,853.24.
- Standards and Testing Agency: £3,153.39.
- Total departmental spend: £35,349,804.30.
We only have data for arms length body spending through Oak National Academy, which spent £128,465.98.
Total spend through the framework is £34,553,792.52.
The vast majority of the spend constitutes the department’s key campaigns which are Get in to Teaching, Childcare Choices, Skills for life and Further Education. We are unable to detail the spend by campaign.
Top ten supplier spend through the framework is shown here:
Supplier | Spend (£) | % participation |
WAVEMAKER LIMITED | 163,975.79 | 0.47% |
KINDRED AGENCY LIMITED | 180,430.41 | 0.52% |
Verian Group UK Limited | 308,302.50 | 0.89% |
FOUR COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 536,585.42 | 1.55% |
BLACKBERRY PRODUCTIONS LTD | 610,447.58 | 1.77% |
SCROLL PROJECTS LTD | 939,406.87 | 2.72% |
M&C SAATCHI (UK) LIMITED | 969,646.82 | 2.81% |
BAM AGENCY LTD | 1,017,463.71 | 2.94% |
HAVAS WORLDWIDE LONDON LTD | 1,231,164.17 | 3.56% |
OMD GROUP TA MANNING GOTTLIEB OMD LTD | 28,028,649.23 | 81.12% |