Tristram Hunt – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tristram Hunt on 2016-02-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on (a) new IT equipment, (b) new furniture, (c) new artwork, (d) catering and events, (e) renovating its buildings and facilities, (f) new plants and shrubs and (g) special advisers’ travel expenses since May 2015.
Nick Gibb
The Department for Education has spent the amounts shown in the table below on the following list of categories from 1 May 2015 to 31 January 2016.
|
a) New IT equipment |
£868,312 |
|
b) New furniture |
£11,861 |
|
c) New artwork |
No Expenditure |
|
d) Catering and events |
£326,575 |
|
e) Renovating buildings and facilities [1] |
£9,862,679 |
|
f) New plants and shrubs |
No Expenditure |
|
g) Special Advisers’ travel expenses (including rail journeys) |
£1,555 |
[1] The figure for renovating buildings and facilities is for DfE and its Agencies and does not include expenditure on school buildings.
The figures are for the Department, its Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Government Equalities Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission and Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
