Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the outturn spending was by (1) NHS England and (2) her Department on communications, marketing and advertising in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.

Significant payments to companies, £25,000 and over, are published by month as part of the Department’s transparency data. This provides the most up-to-date data, including the companies used to deliver advertising and marketing. They are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/spending-over-25-000--2

The Department does not collate and centrally hold the requested information for NHS England, and it could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.