Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Based on the latest figures, the total cost of advertising incurred by the Department for the last three financial years are as follows:
- £7,865,577 in 2020/21;
- £28,985,080 in 2021/22; and
- £14,957,885 in 2022/23.
Advertising budgets are set as part of the campaign planning process, and media is booked to meet these budgets.