Question follow-through · 60681
Department for Education: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on in-person surveys conducted by external polling companies in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on in-person surveys conducted by external polling companies in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department’s expenditure is recorded by financial year. It has spent the following on public polling through external polling companies between 2023 and 31 May 2025:2022/23: £66,750.2023/24: £45,750.2024/25: £24,250.2025/26 (to date): £0.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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