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Dept of Health

Answer

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the Government has spent centrally on smoking cessation advertising and awareness campaigns since 1995; and what central allocations have been made in the current year. [128233] Miss Melanie Johnson: International evidence shows that key elements in any tobacco control strategy are advertising and public education. In the 1998 White Paper, "Smoking Kills", the Government committed itself to a programme of public education to persuade smokers to quit and non-smokers not to start. Education and media campaign spending is shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year £ millions 1995-96 5.5 1996-97 6.5 1997-98 16.5 1998-99 2.7 1999-2000 15.9 2000-01 13.73 2001-02 13.3 2002-03 13.0 2003-04 114.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: 1 Expenditure to date This funding includes expenditure on telephone helplines per annum for the NHS Smoking Helpline-- £1.1 million; the NHS pregnancy smoking helpline-- £152,000; and the NHS Asian Tobacco Helpline-- £78,500. £15 million over the three years from 2003-04 to 2005-06 will be available to key health charities, beginning with the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK to develop hard-hitting messages on the dangers of smoking.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

128233; 410 c263-4W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Advertising Finance Health hazards Health education Public expenditure Publicity Smoking

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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