The following table shows the Department's television and radio advertising expenditure for the national health service over the last five completed financial years.
£ million Financial year Television Radio 2004-05 14,116,855 2,613,818 2005-06 12,729,415 3,151,003 2006-07 8,017,017 1,800,547 2007-08 8,065,615 1,998,611 2008-09 12,757,306 3,061,050 2009-10 15,825,050 5,061,356 Notes: 1. Advertising spend is defined as covering only media spend (inclusive of agency commissions but excluding production costs, Central Office of Information (COI) commission and VAT). All figures exclude advertising rebates and audit adjustments and therefore may differ from COI official turnover figures. All figures are rounded to the nearest £10,000. These figures do not include the Department's recruitment/classified advertising costs and ad hoc spend under £10,000. These figures may include occasional minor spend through COI by NHS organisations, to supplement national campaigns in their area. While this expenditure has been excluded as far as possible so that this chart reflects central departmental spend, it would incur disproportionate cost to validate that every item of NHS expenditure has been removed. 2. 2009-10 figures are provisional until records are audited at the end of the financial year.