Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on seasonal influenza vaccination public awareness campaigns in 2014-15; and how much it plans to spend on such campaigns in 2015-16.

Public Health England’s annual seasonal flu vaccination programme campaign to educate the population about the risks of catching flu, the benefits of having a flu vaccination and promoting uptake of the flu vaccination, cost £1.6 million in 2014-15.

For 2015-16, a joint campaign between Public Health England and NHS England launched on 15 October. This is part of a wider piece of activity to raise awareness of winter services, including flu messaging. £1 million is allocated to flu vaccination messaging.