Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on (a) art, (b) wine and (c) hospitality in each of the last seven financial years for which figures are available.

The expenditure incurred by the Department on hospitality over the past seven years is in the table and the Department cannot identify expenditure in more detail. The Department has no recorded expenditure on the purchase of art.

Note:

*In 2012-13, some spend relating to conference costs has been miscoded to the hospitality account code. There is no means to identify the miscoded spend and thus hospitality spend is not separately identifiable in this financial year.