Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Opinion

(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Judith Cummins Portrait
Judith Cummins
(Labour - Bradford South)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on (a) opinion polling and (b) focus groups in each month since January 2019.

Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The expenditure with our primary market research provider, Kantar UK LTD, between January 2019 and March 2020 was £4 million. The table below shows spend by month. We are unable to breakdown the expenditure into the activities undertaken by the supplier.

Month

Spend

Jan-19

201,138

Feb-19

178,337

Mar-19

691,451

Apr-19

901,263

May-19

333,556

Jun-19

57,000

Jul-19

39,476

Aug-19

242,270

Sep-19

350,683

Oct-19

54,369

Nov-19

281,817

Dec-19

37,824

Jan-20

47,942

Feb-20

187,725

Mar-20

407,757

Total

4,012,608

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