§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list all the occasions since 1990 on which an external public relations company or consultant was employed by her Department with the name of the company or consultant involved; and what was the cost of each transaction.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe functions that are identified as public relations are normally carried out by the Department's information division.
596WNo public relations company or consultant has been directly employed since 1990. During European Drug Prevention Week the organisers sub-contracted a public relations consultant to help produce a video news release. Costs for this cannot be separately identified.