Question follow-through · 51460
Department for Business and Trade: Saatchi and Saatchi
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on services provided by Saatchi and Saatchi since July 2024; and for what purposes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on services provided by Saatchi and Saatchi since July 2024; and for what purposes.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has not spent any money with Saatchi and Saatchi since July 2024, nor does it have a contract for services with them.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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