Question follow-through · 62396
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Marketing
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) social media promotions, (b) influencer marketing and (c) online advertising in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) social media promotions, (b) influencer marketing and (c) online advertising in the last 12 months.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office combines all Advertising & Publicity costs in its financial reporting system. The information required to delineate between social media promotions, influencer marketing and online advertising is not re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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