Disclosure Log
marketing and communications functions (FOI/7050)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 06 February 2026
Dear *********
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/7050.
Thank you for your request for information relating to marketing and communications functions.
This request relates to your authority’s marketing, communications and engagement activity, including associated staffing, budgets, spend and functions. I am seeking this information to better understand how local authorities resource and deliver communications, engagement and consultation activity.
For the most recent full financial year for which data is available, please provide the following:
1. Organisational structure and staffing
a) The total number of employees (FTE) working wholly or primarily in marketing, communications, media, public relations, engagement, consultation or related functions.
18 FTEs
b) The directorate, department or service area in which these staff sit.
Communications and Marketing sits within the Customers, Governance and Employees Directorate.
c) A breakdown of roles or grades where available (e.g. senior leadership, managers, officers).
Not available
2. Budget and expenditure
a) The total annual budget allocated to marketing, communications and engagement activities.
b) The total actual spend for the year.
c) A breakdown of spend between:
• Staff costs (including salaries, on-costs and temporary staff or contractors) - broken down by post
• External suppliers or agencies
• Advertising and media spend
• Website development
• Graphic and digital design
• Print expenditure
• Events, consultation exercises and engagement programmes
• Any other significant categories of spend
Please see attached document for all the above.
3. Core activities
Please outline the core activities undertaken by the marketing, communications and engagement function(s), for example:
• Corporate communications and media relations -
• Campaigns and public information -
• Internal communications –
• Digital and social media
• Web development
• Advertising/recruitment advertising/public notices
• Public consultation and engagement
• Community engagement
• Stakeholder or partner communications
The example bullet points are an accurate overview of the work areas covered.
4. Discretionary vs non-discretionary activity
Please indicate:
a) Which marketing, communications and engagement activities are considered essential or statutory (including any required by legislation or regulation).
Statutory consultations are determined by departments.
b) Which activities are considered discretionary or non-essential.
Check the Local Government Association guidance relating to the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity.
c) Any distinction you make between internal, external and community-based engagement.
We aim to consult as openly as possibly about a range of internal and external matters determined on a case by case basis.
5. Consultation and engagement spend
Please confirm:
a) Total spend on consultation and engagement activities (internal and external).
This varies as is managed on a departmental basis.
b) How this spend is categorised or recorded within your authority (e.g. as part of communications, policy, regeneration, public health or other budgets).
Departmental budgets according to demand.
We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected] .
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
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Yours sincerely
Complaints and Information Team
Chief Executives Department
Nottinghamshire County Council
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