Department of Health: Behavioural Insights Team

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2017 to Question 9680, on Department of Health: Behavioural Insights Team, what projects the Behavioural Insights Team worked on; and what estimate he has made of the value of each such project to the public purse.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 16th October 2017

Projects on which the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) worked, beginning in 2014, are shown in the table below. No assessment has been made of the value of each project to the public purse.

Invoice Posted Date

Line Description

Invoice spend £

21 October 2014

New approaches to raising awareness among women about folic acid supplementation to promote behaviour change

2,040

4 April 2014

Transferred contract with the BIT to develop new approaches to tackling obesity.

9,431

18 November 2014

New approaches to raising awareness among women about folic acid supplementation to promote behaviour change

7,310

17 December 2014

New approaches to raising awareness among women about folic acid supplementation to promote behaviour change

5,360

22 January 2015

New approaches to raising awareness among women about folic acid supplementation to promote behaviour change

3,288

4 April 2014

Transferred contract with the BIT to develop new approaches to tackling obesity.

9,431

25 February 2015

New approaches to raising awareness among women about folic acid supplementation to promote behaviour change

2,010

7 April 2016

Childhood Obesity Strategy: BIT engagement

30,453

7 April 2016

Childhood Obesity Deliberative Forum: BIT engagement

5,538

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