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Treasury

Answer

Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff were employed in the Department to work in the communications field and what the total expenditure on communications for the Department was, broken down by (a) Government Information and Communication Service staff and (b) other staff, broken down by (i) press officers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) others, in (A) 1994-95, (B) 1996-97, (C) 1997-98 and (D) 2001-02. [168672] Ruth Kelly: The number of staff employed by the Treasury to work on media communications has remained broadly constant at nine in each of the years mentioned, around seven of whom were GICS press officers, with one special adviser employed since 1997. The number of staff employed to work on Treasury publications, managing the Treasury's external website and related administration has remained broadly constant in each of the years at 12. For available figures on the costs of these staff, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answers I gave to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) on 31 January 2003, Official Report, column 613W, and on 26 April 2004, Official Report, column 754W, and to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) on 31 Jan 2003, Official Report, column 1051W.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

168672; 423 c285-6W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Expenditure Government departments Staff Special advisers Treasury Information officers Government Information and Communication Service Information services

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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