§ Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much(a) his Department and (b) the national health service spent in the last year for which figures are available on marketing (i) the national health service itself, (ii) health education campaigns, (iii) healthy eating campaigns and (iv) AIDS campaigns.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyExpenditure figures for 1989–90 on public information campaigns, in the four areas requested, run by the Department are as follows:
£ million National Health Service 0.356 Health Education (Drug Misuse) 3.808 Healthy Eating (Food Hygiene) 0.373 AIDS 1.493 The Department also funds the Health Education Authority whose total expenditure in 1989–90 was just 409W over £27 million. A large proportion of this money was spent on healthy eating and AIDS health education campaigns.
Health authorities have to date reported spending of over £13.25 million in 1989–90 on local HIV prevention initiatives. They also ran other local health education campaigns, but the financial details of these are not held centrally.