Written question asked by Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) on Wednesday, 28 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 March 2024 (named day). It was answered by Andrew Stephenson (Conservative) on Wednesday, 6 March 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Department of Health and Social Care : Magazine Press

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding their Department (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.

Answer

The Department has paid for subscriptions to the following publications in the last three financial years:

- print editions of all national daily newspapers together with online editions of the Telegraph, Times and Financial Times;

- The New Statesman;

- The Spectator;

- Economist Nursing Times;

- Private Eye;

- The Voice;

- Health Service Journal;

- GP Online;

- Pulse;

- Health Policy Insight;

- New England Journal of Medicine;

- Journal of American Medicine;

- Nature;

- Bloomberg;

- PR Week; and

- I News.

The cost of the subscriptions totalled approximately £7,700 per year in financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22, and precisely £7718.08 in 2022/23.

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