Education written question – answered at on 13 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) press officers, (b) internal communications officers, (c) external communications officers, (d) communications strategy officers and (e) other positions with a communications remit were employed by (i) his Department, (ii) its agencies and (iii) each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department on the most recent date for which figures are available.
As part of wider reforms to our corporate functions, and rationalising the number of agencies and non-departmental public bodies, the Department is currently centralising communications functions and reducing communication staff numbers.
The Department has reduced its total communications staff from 130 in April 2010, to 86 in April 2011, to 69 to date. Communication staff numbers in agencies and non-departmental public bodies have reduced from 204 in April 2010, to 105 in April 2011, and we anticipate this figure to reduce to zero by the end of the financial year.
There are currently (a) 15 press officers, (b) four internal communications officers, (d) four communications strategy officers, and (e) 46 other positions with a communications remit in the Department; for example web editing, speechwriting, publishing, and events management. We do not categorise (c) external communications officers.
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