Health Authorities And Trusts (Advertising) Mr. Milburn To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the cost of advertising by trusts and health authorities in each region in each year since 1990. [4186] Mr. Malone The available information is shown in the table. Advertising is not defined in the national health service manual accounts and may be undertaken, for example, both for staff recruitment and for health promotion purposes. ---------------------------- |Northern | ---------------------------- |Yorkshire | ---------------------------- |Trent | ---------------------------- |East Anglian | ---------------------------- |North West Thames | ---------------------------- |North East Thames | ---------------------------- |South East Thames | ---------------------------- |South West Thames | ---------------------------- |Wessex | ---------------------------- |Oxford | ---------------------------- |South Western | ---------------------------- |West Midlands | ---------------------------- |Mersey | ---------------------------- |North Western | ---------------------------- |Special Health Authorities| ---------------------------- ---------------------------- |Northern and Yorkshire | ---------------------------- |Trent | ---------------------------- |Anglia and Oxford | ---------------------------- |North Thames | ---------------------------- |South Thames | ---------------------------- |South and West | ---------------------------- |West Midlands | ---------------------------- |North Western | ---------------------------- |Special Health Authorities| ----------------------------