Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many press officers his Department employed in each of the last six years.

Mike Penning

We have been able to provide the information dating back to 2011. The number of press officers employed by the Department is as follows:

March 2014 – 20

March 2013 – 20

March 2012 – 23

July 2011 – 31

By way of comparison in March 2010 the Department employed 54 press officers