Cancer

(asked on 23rd October 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Berger Portrait
Baroness Berger
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on public awareness campaigns on cancer in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Portrait
Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 28th October 2014

The following table shows spend figures, by the Department and Public Health England, for public awareness campaigns on cancer between 2010-11 and 2013-14:

Media Spend (£ millions)

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

0.55

3.76

6.46

7.38

Notes:

1. Since 2010-11 the Department has run a serioes of Be Clear on Cancer campagins, in April 2013 reponsibility for these campagins transfrered to Public Health England.

2. Figures are net plus media buying agency fees and commissions (rounded to nearest £10,000)

3. Figures exclude VAT and Central Office of Information (COI) fees.

4. Media spend includes expenditure for advertising on Television, Radio, National Press, Regional Press, Out of Home (Outdoor), Cinema and Digital.

5. Final figures for 2014-15 are not yet available.

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