Frontline communication and press officers employed by Accountant in Bankruptcy: FOI release

Information requested

1. Can you please set out how many FTE frontline communications staff/press officers there have been for each of the ten years to 2019/20. If an average number cannot be sourced, pick March as a snapshot.

1b. How many FTE frontline communications staff/press officers were there in January (snapshot) 2021.

1c. What was the annual cost of employing those frontline staff in all those years 2009/10 - 2019/20.

2. How many FTE frontline communications staff/press officers have been employed that have been outsourced, In other words, not in-house but external PR/communications supplied by a private company in all those years 2009/10 - 2019/20

2b. How much was spent in those outsourced frontline PR/communications/press office functions, in other words, not in-house but external PR/communications supplied by a private company (as per Q4).

Response

1. A breakdown has been provided in the table below, split into each year, setting out the number of FTE frontline communications staff employed by the Accountant in Bankruptcy over the past ten years.

Year	Number of FTE frontline communications staff
2009/10	No information held
2010/11	One staff member
2011/12	Two staff members
2012/13	Two staff members
2013/14	Two staff members
2014/15	Two staff members
2015/16	Two staff members
2016/17	Two staff members
2017/18	Two staff members
2018/19	Three staff members
2019/20	Two staff members

1b. There were two FTE frontline communications staff/press officers in January 2021.

1c. A breakdown has been provided in the table below, split into each year, setting out the annual cost of FTE frontline communications staff employed by the Accountant in Bankruptcy over the past ten years.

Year	Annual Cost of employment of FTE frontline staff (£)
2009/10	No information Held
2010/11	31,218.08
2011/12	55,154.40
2012/13	49,520.80
2013/14	73,239.39
2014/15	79,211.77
2015/16	82,037.03
2016/17	89,803.61
2017/18	92,930.47
2018/19	82,941.11
2019/20	70,900.23

2. There have been no FTE frontline communications staff/press officers outsourced in the years 2009/10 - 2019/20.

2b. As there has been no outsourced staff between the years 2009/10 - 2019/20, the amount spent is nil.

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