Written Question·Treasury·UIN 35364

Government Communication Service: Social Media

Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 12 March 2025

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the comments of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on Newsnight on 29 July 2024, what the evidential basis is for the claim that the Government Communication Service spent hundreds of millions of

Answer

Darren Jones
The government has taken decisive action to reduce wasteful spend, In Fixing the Foundations, the Chancellor identified £100m of savings from non-essential spending on government communications across 2024-25 and 2025-26. Cabinet Office provided estimates...

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