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 social media advertising by (a) influencer and (b) organisation in each of the last five financial years.

The specific information breakdown requested is commercially confidential.

However, significant payments to companies, £25,000 and over, are published by month as part of the Department’s transparency data. This information is available at the following link:

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