Public Relations
(asked on 12th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) NHS England, (b) Public Health England, (c) Monitor and (d) the Care Quality Commission spent on public relations and communications staff in (i) each year since 2010 and (ii) 2014 to date.
Below are details of how much each of the four bodies has spent on public relations and communications staff since 2010 or from when the data are available.
To ensure consistency all organisations have provided data according to the following criteria for public relations (PR) and communications staff:
- Press and PR
- Stakeholder relations
- Campaigns (not behaviour change policy)
- Digital Comms (not IT/digital service teams)
- Internal Comms
(a) NHS England
On 1 October 2012, the functions of the Board Authority transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board (also known as NHS England), which was formally established as an executive non departmental public body. NHS England took on all of its statutory functions in April 2013. Figures have been given from 1 October 2012.
NHS England | 2012/13 (October – April) | 2013/14 (April – March) | 2014/15 (April – November) |
National Communications | £253,963 | £584,419 | £1,040,240 |
Communications in local areas | £3,558,677 | £2,595,881 | |
NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ) | £325,265 | £461,232 |
(b) Public Health England (PHE)
PHE was formed on 1 April 2013 - figures from predecessor bodies are not provided.
Public Health England | 2013/14 | 2014/15 (to November) |
PR and Communications staff expenditure | £2,888,000 | £2,323,000 |
(c) Monitor
Monitor | 2010 (April – December) | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 (to November) |
PR and Communications staff expenditure | £398,973.20
| £526,784.85 | £486,320.81 | £1,066,790.92 | £1,223,775.43 |
(d) Care Quality Commission (CQC)
CQC | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 (to November) |
PR and Communications staff expenditure | £568,951 | £736,238 | £1,188,519 | £1,039,669 | £780,195 |