Question follow-through · 99692
Department for Education: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2026
Answer published
Due to the difficulty of disaggregating the number of staff who are employed to produce social media content from staff who are employed to work on broader digital communications, it is not possible to report exact figures in response to this question.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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