Disclosure Scotland Public relations and communications: FOI release

Information requested

Information about our expenditure on public relations and communications for the financial year 2022-2023.

1. For the years 2022-2023 how much was spent on external companies to handle public relations and communications?

Please provide:

• The total cost 2022-2023 financial year.
• The amount of money paid to each firm (including VAT)

2. For the years 2022-2023, how much was spent social media advertising, including a breakdown by year and by form of social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

Response

1. For the years 2022-2023 how much was spent on external companies to handle public relations and communications?
Please provide:

• The total cost 2022-2023 financial year.
• The amount of money paid to each firm (including VAT)

Disclosure Scotland response:
Disclosure Scotland’s Communications Team has created and delivered all its public relations, social advertising and communications activities using in house resources. No external companies were used by Disclosure Scotland to handle public relations and communications, therefore:

• total cost 2022 to 2023 financial year - £ 0.00
• the amount of money paid to each firm (including VAT) £ 0.00

2. For the years 2022-2023, how much was spent social media advertising, including a breakdown by year and by form of social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

Disclosure Scotland response:
For the years 2022 - 2023, as above Disclosure Scotland use in house resources for social media, therefore I can confirm the spend on social media advertising is £ 0.00.

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