Departmental Internet

Justine Greening
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost of maintaining and updating its Twitter account; and how many staff are responsible for updating the account.

Chris Mole
There have been no additional costs to date for the creation and maintenance of the Department for Transport corporate Twitter channel:

http://www.twitter.com/transportgovuk

No additional staff have been recruited and maintenance of the Twitter channel is being managed within the existing communications budget. The task is the responsibility of the departmental communications team as a whole as part of their overall range of duties; no staff are assigned to Twitter work specifically.