Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department paid in spectrum charges in each financial year from 1999-2000 to 2014-15.

Mike Penning

The table below details the amount the Department paid in spectrum charges from 2009/10 to 2014/15. The variation in charges from 2010 is the result of Home Office reducing its holdings by sharing and releasing spectrum. Use of spectrum in the years from 1999 to 2009 remained at a constant level and our records indicate this was charged at £2,916,000 per annum.

Financial Year/ Cost:

2009-2010 £2,916,000

2010-2011 £2,819,820

2011-2012 £2,317,836

2012-2013 £1,779,309

2013-2014 £1,816,022

2014-2015 £1,325,654