Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information the Government Communications Service holds on spending on (a) external marketing, (b) external public relations and (c) other forms of external communications by (i) his and (ii) other Departments.

All departments and ALBs are responsible for their own business planning process. During this process, they will decide their allocation of advertising, marketing, and communications (AMC) spending.

If their spend breaches the advertising, marketing and communications spending control threshold (£100,000), they then engage with our AMC team within the Government Communications Service (GCS).