Smoking
(asked on 26th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on campaigns promoting the cessation of smoking in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 3rd May 2016
Public Health England took over public health campaigns formerly run by the Department on 1 April 2013.
The breakdown of spending on smoking cessation campaigns since 1 April 2013 is as below; all figures are rounded to the nearest £10,000 and include paid media spending (inclusive of agency commissions but excluding production costs and value added tax).
2013-14 | £7,640,000 |
2014-15 | £6,920,000 |
2015-16 | £5,300,000 |