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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the television, newspaper and radio advertising and other promotional campaigns conducted by (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its departmental public bodies, in each of the past five years, showing for each the expenditure incurred by his Department; and if he will make a statement. [153412] Ms Stuart: [holding answer 12 March 2001]: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster), on 20 March 2001, Official Report, columns 133-36W. Major advertising spend on individual campaigns is shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01{ 1} Ambulance Services 0.40 -- -- -- -- Antibiotics -- -- -- 0.17 -- Blood donation 0.38 0.60 1.70 {2}0.22 -- Children's services -- -- -- -- 0.60 Drugs -- -- -- 0.34 -- Flu -- -- -- -- 0.23 Maternity 0.10 -- -- -- -- National Health Service 1.43 1.30 4.90 4.21 4.90 including nurse recruitment NHS Direct -- 0.12 0.78 1.20 1.15 Organ donation -- -- 0.77 0.47 0.49 Prescription fraud -- -- 0.38 -- 1.40 Sexwise/teenage pregnancy -- -- -- 0.39 1.01 Smoking -- -- -- {3}6.18 8.66 Travel safe 0.85 -- -- -- -- Walk-in centres -- -- -- -- 0.30 Winter -- -- -- 1.07 2.35 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Planned {2} The Department's spend on blood donation advertising reduced in 1999-2000 because most of this activity was funded directly by the National Blood Authority, who took over full responsibility for this expenditure on 1 April 2000. {3} Prior to 1999-2000 advertising on smoking was undertaken by the health education authority (HEA). The figures for the total spend on advertising including promotional campaigns for the Department for the financial years 1996-97 to 2000-01 are shown in the table. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Financial Year Advertising expenditure 1996-97 2.50 1997-98 2.27 1998-99 8.63 1999-2000 14.83 2000-01{1} 21.09 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Planned Total spend on advertising by the HEA for the years 1996-97 to 1999-2000 and could not be broken down by campaigns is shown in the table. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Financial Year Advertising expenditure 1996-97 9.5 1997-98 7.5 1998-99 5.2 1999-2000 2.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

153412; 365 c376-7W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Executive agencies Expenditure Government departments Press Publicity Radio Television Department of Health

Contains statistics

Yes

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