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Request

1.How much was your communications spend in the financial year 2022/23?

2.What is your communications budget for the financial year 2023/24?

3. What was your actual communications budget spend for the financial year 2023/24

 4. How many communications professionals do you employ and what is the total annual combined cost of those salaries? 

5.How many media professionals do you employ that specifically handle external communications and what is the annual cost of those salaries? 

6.Have you used any external communications professionals within your organisation? What was the cost of this?

7. Which job role is responsible for the communications department and what is the salary currently provided to the person carrying out this role. (Please clarify whether this salary is included in the answers given for Q4 and Q5).

Response

I can confirm that the Office of the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner holds the information requested:

1. How much was your communications spend in the financial year 2022/23? –  £262,939.34
2. What is your communications budget for the financial year 2023/24? –   £272,379.51
3. What was your actual communications budget spend for the financial year 2023/24 –   £266,669.92
4. How many communications professionals do you employ and what is the total annual combined cost of those salaries? –  5 full time people are employed.  The total cost in 2023-24 was for staff including on-costs was £248,618.57
5. How many media professionals do you employ that specifically handle external communications and what is the annual cost of those salaries? –  All five members of the team carry out external communication, as well as internal communication, marketing etc.   The team work only 50% max of the time for the OPFCC, and 50% of the time for Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service.  A separate team is employed by the Chief Constable to deal with Force Communications
6. Have you used any external communications professionals within your organisation? What was the cost of this? –  No external communications professionals have been used.  However, there have been instances where marketing campaigns have been commissioned externally for specific projects.
7. Which job role is responsible for the communications department and what is the salary currently provided to the person carrying out this role. (Please clarify whether this salary is included in the answers given for Q4 and Q5). –   Head of Communications, the annual salary was £64,683 with effect from 01/09/23.