Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) national newspaper advertisements, (d) local newspaper advertisements, (e) social media advertising and (f) other types of advertising in each year since 2010.

Detailed information for spend on advertising by each individual categories specified is not available within the Department’s Business Management System centrally and to provide an answer by categories specified would require a review of each individual contract and invoice payment, and would result in disproportionate cost.