Annual Expenditure on Advertising Costs for Content Featuring Political Officeholders for Social and Mainstream Media

Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Communications and Information between 2020 and 2023 to date (a) how much was spent annually on advertising costs, including consultancy and production fees, to produce content featuring political officeholders for (i) social media and (ii) mainstream media respectively; and (b) what is the annual breakdown of these figures by Ministries.

Mrs Josephine Teo: The vast majority of the Government’s paid communications materials do not feature political officeholders. We also do not track spending according to whether they are featured.