To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of his Department's contracts with public relations consultancies was in each of the last five years. (251261)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) does not break down expenditure on consultants into specific categories to this level.

Annual expenditure on consultants is published in the FCO’s annual departmental reports, copies of which are available on the FCO website and can be directly accessed through the following link:

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029395438.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of his Department's contracts with public affairs companies was in each of the last five years. (251284)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold information of expenditure broken down into categories of companies at this level. Examining individual contracts to respond to this question would incur disproportionate costs.