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Information Services: Expenditure

Volume 463: debated on Wednesday 25 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the Government has spent on (a) sexual health information and (b) travel health awareness in (i) Hampshire and (ii) England since 1997. (150954)

The Department does not collect information on expenditure in Hampshire.

The Department's expenditure on sexual health campaigns, including HIV, contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted infections is set out in the following table.

£ million

1997-98

4.700

1998-99

4.800

1999-2000

6.000

2000-01

4.600

2001-02

4.600

2002-03

6.600

2003-04

6.600

2004-05

6.600

2005-06

5.120

2006-07

11.100

2007-08

9.800

Information on expenditure on travel health awareness is not identified separately, but is undertaken as part of wider departmental work programmes. Work currently includes travel health awareness initiatives undertaken by the National Travel Health Network and Centre, based at the Health Protection Agency, the leaflet ‘Travelsafe’, covering HIV hepatitis C and hepatitis B and the health information for overseas travel, for general practitioners and practice nurses. The Department also produces information for travellers to Mecca as part of the Hajj campaign.

The Department is also running various summer holiday activities as part of the Condom Essential Wear campaign, and we have also funded the Terrence Higgins Trust to produce booklets on HIV prevention for gay travellers overseas.