David Lammy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what UK Trade and Investment’s total (a) operating budget, (b) communications budget and (c) expenditure on third party communications consultancy and public relations agencies was in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2016.
Anna Soubry
UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) total (a1) operating budget, (b) communications budget and (c) expenditure on third party communications consultancy and public relations agencies in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2016 was as follows in the table below. We have also provided additional figures (a2) to reflect UKTI total associated operating costs which were allocated by parliament to UKTI’s parent departments, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills prior to 2015/16. These costs have been increasingly consolidated into UKTI operating budget over the last two years:
|
2013/14(£m) |
2014/15(£m) |
2015/16 (£m) |
|
|
A1 |
166.4 |
271.9 |
343.0 |
|
A2 |
209.6 |
90.4 |
– |
|
376.0 |
362.3 |
343.0 |
|
|
B |
12.6 |
4.1 |
4.1 |
|
C |
0.5 |
3.8 |
1.4 |
