To ask the Secretary of State for Health what he expects the cost of his Department’s End Waiting, Change Lives campaign to have been by the end of 2008. (170194)

The total anticipated spend to the end of this financial year (end March 2008) is £1,221,861.10.

The campaign budget for April to December 2008 will be determined as part of the development of the Department’s 2008-09 business plan, which is now under way.