Deidre Brock – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Deidre Brock on 2016-07-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department was of its communications team in each year since 2007; and what the projected cost is of that team in 2016.
Caroline Nokes
The table below shows the details of actual and forecast expenditure for the staff cost of the Department’s Strategic Communications Directorate.
The staff costs include the costs of salaries, employer national insurance contribution, employer pension contribution, performance related awards, overtime, travelling time, temporary duty allowance, secondments, contractors and staff substitutions. Also, associated IT costs and communications directorate external contracts are included.
|
Financial Year |
Staff Costs £m |
|
2013-14 |
17.543 |
|
2014/15 |
15.277 |
|
2015/16 |
15.109 |
|
2016/17* |
15.134 |
*forecast as at July 2016
Following a significant organisational design review (ODR) which resulted in fundamental structural changes within the Corporate Centre of DWP, expenditure prior to 2013/14 is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
