Payments to celebrities: SSAC FOI response
Updated 11 December 2017
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Information request
Received: 24 June 2017
I am looking for information about payments to celebrities. Please could you provide me with the following:
1. Please could you provide a list of celebrities who have received payments over the past three calendar years (2015/16/17) up until the present date.
2. In each case where a celebrity has been paid please could you state how much they were paid, the date they were paid and why they were paid (i.e. promotional campaign/advert, speaking fee, performing fee, appearance fee etc).
3. In each case where a celebrity has been paid please could you include any expenses that were also paid and detail what they were for (travel, accommodation etc). Please could you break down what was paid to the celebrities in fees and what was paid to them in expenses.
Please note, for the purpose of this request a ‘celebrity’ should be taken to mean a famous person in sport, entertainment, film, music, reality TV, vlogging, or any other field.
If FOI requests of a similar nature have already been asked could you also please include your responses to those requests.
Response
Responded: 28 July 2017
It may help if I first explain that the committee is an independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions. Its purpose is to scrutinise complex secondary legislation that underpins the social security system and to provide impartial advice on social security and related matters.
Read further information about the committee’s role.
I can confirm that the Social Security Advisory Committee holds no information regarding payments being made to ‘celebrities’.
Details of the fees paid to each committee member are routinely published in our annual reports.
Read our latest report, covering the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.