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225641

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date	06/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	226601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Information of spend by the Department on both its total advertising costs and communications expenditure is as noted in the attached tables.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/03/2015 17:55:54 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Department of Health information of spend.docx title DH advertising costs & communications expenditure
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

170703

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Christmas Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) other organisations receive Christmas cards from his Department.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	218997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not centrally send or record the sending of Christmas cards to individuals, companies or other organisations. There is also no central budget held for funding Christmas cards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 07/01/2015 17:16:51 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166329

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Catering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	216187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has spent the following on hospitality in each financial year:</p><p> </p><p>Financial year £</p><p> </p><p>2009-10 937,578.56</p><p> </p><p>2010-11 629,478.02</p><p> </p><p>2011-12 452,893.27</p><p> </p><p>2012-13 385,998.40</p><p> </p><p>2013-14 193,591.20</p><p> </p><p>2014-15 (to 27/10/14) 95,621.56</p><p> </p><p>For 2013-14, the most recent annual data, this represented £743,987.36 reduction on 20019-10, the last full year of data for the previous Government.</p><p> </p><p>These costs include the provision of refreshments for external meetings and visitors hosted in the Department's buildings. Departmental policy is not to provide refreshments for internal meetings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/12/2014 17:47:49 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166364

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Take-away Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on take-away food for staff since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	216096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has conducted a search of its own Business Management System and has identified no expenditure specifically for spend on take-away food for staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/12/2014 17:46:37 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

164177

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Art Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on transporting, installing and removing works of art from the Government Art Collection for the display of artwork in his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	215578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not incurred any costs relating to the display of artworks from the Government Art Collection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 28/11/2014 12:20:02 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

100419

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on agency and locum staff in the NHS (a) in total, (b) for each job type and (c) in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	211600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Following the Francis<sup>1</sup> report many trusts were required to increase their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels.</p><p> </p><p><br> The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency<sup>2</sup> staffing spend (including use of locums) responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management and to minimise temporary staffing costs in future years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amounts spent on agency and contract staff (including locums) in the National Health Service in each year since May 2010 are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS Foundation Trusts<sup>3</sup></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>854.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>907.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>1,101.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1,396.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>4,258.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS Trusts</p><p> </p><p>This information is not available for NHS trusts for 2010-11 to 2012-13 as spend on agency and contract staff was not separately identified from other “non permanent NHS staff”<sup>4</sup>. The amount spent in 2013-14 on Contract and Agency staff by NHS trusts is £1,209.1m.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on how much has been spent on agency and locum staff for each job type.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>1</sup></sup> http://www.midstaffspublicinquiry.com/</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>The definition of Contract / Agency staff is: “Agency” employee payments for the employment of staff where the staff remain employees of the agency and “Contract staff” where the NHS trust has control over numbers and qualifications of staff (in contrast to a service obtained under contract).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>3</sup> For 2009-10 – 2012-13 actual figures are based on gross staff costs as per notes in the NHS Foundation Trust consolidated accounts. The figures from the consolidated accounts may differ to the Board reports due to adjustments made on redundancy, early retirement, capitalisation of staff costs and costs of R&amp;D staff. 2013-14 figure is taken from the Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>4</sup> The figures published for 2012-13 for NHS trusts are based on non-permanently employed staff which is defined as “others engaged on the objectives of the organisation and will include staff on inward secondment or loan from other organisations, bank/agency/temporary staff and contract staff.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 29/10/2014 17:37:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth