Department of Health: Paper
(asked on 14th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) his Department and (b) NHS England has spent on photocopier and printer paper since January 2013.
Department of Health and NHS England spend on photocopier and printer paper by calendar year from January 2013 up to and including 30 September 2015 is enclosed in the two tables below:
Table 1 | |
Department of Health | |
1 January 2013 - 31 December 2013 | £51,685 |
1 January 2014 - 31 December 2014 | £92,818 |
1 January 2015 - 30th September 2015 | £57,169 |
Grand Total | £201,671 |
Table 2 | |
NHS England | |
1 January 2013 - 31 December 2013 | £192,097 |
1 January 2014 - 31 December 2014 | £184,626 |
1 January 2015 - 30 September 2015 | £71,886 |
Grand Total | £448,609 |
NHS England and the Department of Health are shared occupiers within Quarry House, Leeds. Whilst NHS England are unable to separately state their print costs for this building, these costs are counted towards the Department's spend figures.
NHS England spend on all paper purchased excluding for Quarry House is taken from their X24 NHS spend ledger and therefore includes a large volume of patient communications within Primary Care Services.