Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding their Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the estimated amount budgeted and spent by the Department in each of the past three financial years, to replace legacy systems:
Financial year | Budget | Actual |
2021/22 | £350,000 | £500,000 |
2022/23 | £0 | £0 |
2023/24 | £0 | £0 |
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
(a) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cannot provide the budget information for Advertising as we do not allocate budget to this level of granularity.
(b) The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spent £1,701 in 2020/21, £2,176 in 2021/22 and £11,892 in 2022/23 on Advertising costs.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
HM Treasury publishes data on spend over £25,000 as part of the transparency agenda, which can be found on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Determining the amount allocated for and spent by the Home Office on advertising specifically is not readily available from our finance system.
To try to identify the information under scope would require a manual review of multiple expenditure categories and transactions, over three financial years.
This could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of digital roles within her Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
As of 26 February 2024, we estimate that we currently have a vacancy rate of 22.76% in digital roles within the Department.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Determining the amount allocated for and spent by the Home Office on magazine subscriptions is not readily available from our finance system.
The Home Office does not have expenditure categories in our financial system that would allow us to quickly identify spending at this level of granularity.
To try to identify the information under scope would require a manual review of multiple expenditures categories and transactions, over multiple business areas.
This could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
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.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
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.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much funding their Department (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not hold separate financial data on magazine subscriptions as we do not allocate budget to that level of granularity. Many decisions are made by the UK's 281 embassies and diplomatic posts overseas or by individual departments in the UK. As a result, comprehensive information on individual magazine purchasing across the organisation is not centrally recorded and disaggregating this information would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding their Department (a) allocated for (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
HMT’s expenditure on these areas is published as part of the departments on-going support of the transparency reporting programme. These can be viewed using the links below .
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-spend
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
A full departmental response could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The total cost of magazine subscriptions spend that was readily available for the last three years is £4,032.04.