Department of Health: Public Expenditure
(asked on 9th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising (i) in 2014-15 prices and (ii) as a proportion of his Department's expenditure in each year since 2010-11.
The information is not available in the format requested. Non-payroll staff expenditure is effectively within the temporary agency figure but is not separately identifiable.
The total value of the Core Department’s expenditure in respect of temporary agency staff and consultants is available in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts which have been published on the GOV.UK website and can be accessed via the links below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-of-health-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-11
Consultancy services are defined as “The provision to management of objective advice and assistance relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such assistance will be provided outside the ‘business as usual’ (BAU) environment when in-house skills are not available and will be of no essential consequence and time-limited. Services may include the identification of options with recommendations and/or assistance with (but not delivery of) the implementation of solutions.”
The accounts figures can be converted into 2014-15 prices using the GDP Deflators at market prices and money GDP: October 2015 (The Blue Book) at the following page on the GOV.UK website:
The proportion of expenditure can be calculated by taking the spend categories as a proportion of the Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) reported in the Annual Report and Accounts documents above.
The total value of the Core Department’s expenditure in respect of administration and marketing (publicity) and advertising is shown in the tables below.
Table D – Administration
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
£’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
(i) 2014-15 Prices | 456,441 | 478,963 | 468,842 | 336,859 | 188,658 |
(ii) Proportion of Expenditure | 0.44% | 0.45% | 0.44% | 0.31% | 0.17% |
Table E Publicity and Advertising
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
£’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
(i) 2014-15 Prices | 21,622 | 24,584 | 45,890 | 974 | 4,230 |
(ii) Proportion of Expenditure | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.001% | 0.004% |
Marketing and Advertising costs are not a separate category of spend within the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. The figures stated above have therefore been taken from the Department’s General Ledger and then uplifted to 2014-15 prices. However, the nearest category is ‘publicity and advertising’ rather than ‘marketing and advertising’.