HC Deb 25 March 2003 vol 402 cc187-8W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the advertising campaigns which(a) his Department and (b) the NHS have commissioned since 1997; and what the costs were in each case. [100505]

Advertising campaigns
£ million
1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–031
Antibiotics 0.91 0.44 0.52
Blood donation 0.38 0.60 1.70 0.222
CALM3 0.05 0.10
Drugs 0.53 0.5 1.5
Flu 2.01 1.45 2.0
Immunisation 0.67 0.63
Maternity 0.10
Mind Out 0.13 0.15
National health service including nurse recruitment 1.43 1.30 4.90 4.21 4.90 5.0 4.783
NHS Direct 0.12 0.78 1.24 0.11 1.08 0.58
Organ donation 0.02 0.77 0.47 0.43 0.18 0.21
Prescription fraud 0.38 0.18 0.30
Sexwise/teenage pregnancy 0.39 1.5 1.6 2.0
Sexual health 0.3 1.5
Social worker recruitment 0.832 1.236
Smoking 6.184 8.97 7.79 7.873
TB awareness 0.30 0.09
Travel safe 0.85
Walk-in centres 0.17 0.023
Winter 1.016 2.03 0.16 0.35
Total 3.16 2.04 8.53 15.166 20.80 20.005 23.822
1 Costs to date.
2 The Department's spend on blood donation advertising reduced in 1999–2000 as this activity was funded directly by the National Blood Authority, who took over full responsibility for this expenditure on 1 April 2000.
3 CALM-Campaign against living miserably.
4 Prior to 1999–2000 advertising on smoking was undertaken by the Health Education Authority.

NHS foundation trusts will have the freedom to decide how these targets are met.