HC Deb 16 July 1996 vol 281 cc498-9W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 10 July,Official Report, column 237, on advertising costs, if he will publish such information as is available. [37698]

Mr. Malone

No data are available which separately identify advertising expenditure. The available data include information about a range of expenditure such as recruitment advertising, health promotion initiatives and measures to improve local accountability such as the production of annual reports and information about services.

The information available is as follows:

Expenditure which includes advertising by health authorities and NHS trusts in England by region
Region 1993–94 £ 1992–93 £ 1991–92 £ 1990–91 £
Northern 1,536,557 1,308,722 1,399,551 1,323,781
Yorkshire 1,686,291 1,854,389 1,546,213 1,859,669
Trent 2,704,686 2,293,997 2,085,979 2,216,819
East Anglian 1,172,152 1,036,682 907,766 1,025,380
North-west Thames 2,498,796 2,194,458 2,207,702 2,486,098
North-east Thames 2,455,868 2,490,538 2,621,400 3,221,808
South-east Thames 2,337,759 2,420,354 2,031,840 2,274,056
South-west Thames ,833,519 1,653,714 1,867,469 2,328,691
Wessex 1,270,588 1,201,590 1,070,856 1,334,230
Oxford 1,666,571 1,611,181 1,363,725 1,811,388
South Western 1,674,348 1,416,404 1,509,019 1,495,296
West Midlands 2,110,235 2,273,185 2,271,774 2,788,696
Mersey 1,016,055 974,966 868,299 881,187
North Western 1,469,480 1,306,521 1,504,003 1,761,767
Special health authorities 633,838 633,378 735,386 784,834
Total England 26,066,743 24,670,079 23,990,982 27,593,700

Source:

1. The annual financial returns of NHS trusts, 1991–92 to 1993–94.

2. The annual financial returns of district and regional health authorities and the special health authorities of the London postgraduate teaching hospitals, 1991–92 to 1993–94.

The annual accounts of district and regional health authorities and the special health authorities of the London postgraduate teaching hospitals 1990–91.

Expenditure which includes advertising by health authorities and NHS trusts in England by region
1994–95 £
Northern and Yorkshire 3,597,713
Trent 3,327,513
Anglia and Oxford 4,263,608
North Thames 8,214,511
South Thames 6,398,960
South and West 4,070,058
West Midlands 3,706,907
North Western 3,310,769
Special health authorities 135,606
Total England 37,025,645

Source:

1. The annual financial returns of NHS trusts.

2. The annual financial returns of district and regional health authorities and the special health authorities of the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.