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.

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.