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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure was in his Department for the financial years (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99 and (d) 1999-2000, and what the planned expenditure and breakdown of expenditure for 2000-01 is on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper advertising and (iii) direct mail. [149265] Ms Stuart: [holding answer 8 February 2001]: The figures for the total spend on advertising 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 (planned) 21.09 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Major advertising spend on individual campaigns is shown in the table. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 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 -- -- -- -- NHS including Nurse 1.43 1.30 4.90 4.21 4.90 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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

149265; 365 c134-6W;365 c134-5W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Direct marketing Expenditure Government departments Publicity Media Surveys Department of Health

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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