Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.

The Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 is the latest version laid before Parliament. For spend on communications we have interpreted this to be publicity and advertising, which includes health promotion campaigns, for instance Better Health, childhood immunisations, and winter vaccinations. The costs in this year for the Department were £27,473,336.