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Departmental Information Officers

Volume 482: debated on Wednesday 12 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on salaries for press and communications officers in (a) his Department, (b) its non-departmental public bodies and (c) its agencies in each of the last three years. (231339)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Press and communications officers cover a wide range of tasks including internal communications, intranet and internet operations, event organisation, marketing, publication production and stakeholder relations.

Ministry of Justice spend on salaries for press and communications officers in the last three years

£

Communications officers

Press officers

Total

2005-06

Ministry of Justice HQ

1

1

12,626,355.00

HMCS

1

1

1217,420.90

OPG

1

1

1139,662.29

National Archives

104,306.00

130,250.00

234,556.00

Tribunals2

n/a

n/a

Boundary Commission for England3

Boundary Commission for Wales3

JAC4

JCO2

n/a

n/a

LSC

678,410.80

132,797.41

811,208.21

Land Registry

453,013.00

95,310.00

548,323.00

2006-07

Ministry of Justice HQ

1,736,925.00

723,488.00

2,520,413.00

HMCS

400,527.39

112,492.00

513,019.39

OPG

1

1

1167,863.53

National Archives

184,966.00

139,325.00

324,291.00

Tribunals

210,009.70

37,415.74

247,425.44

Boundary Commission for England3

Boundary Commission for Wales3

JAC4

JCO

198,332.12

95,715.23

294,047.35

LSC

628,223.17

164,631.60

792,854.77

Land Registry

451,883.00

110,993.00

562,876.00

2007-08

Ministry of Justice HQ

2,286,346.00

1,560,439.00

3,846,785.00

HMCS

438,671.88

158,653.00

597,324.88

OPG

1

1

1173,205.50

National Archives

166,115.00

135,398.75

301,513.75

Tribunals

190,223.24

55,455.34

245,678.58

Boundary Commission for England3

Boundary Commission for Wales3

JAC4

JCO

211,776.20

107,582.31

319,358.51

LSC

668,696.22

175,230.95

844,92717

Land Registry

481,017.00

99,994.00

581,011.00

1 Joint budget

2 Formed in April 2006

3 No press office and all queries are dealt with by its secretariat

4 No dedicated resource