Helen Jones – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department allocated to the Stroke/Act FAST campaign in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England took over all the public health campaigns formerly run by the Department on 1 April 2013, including Act FAST.

In 2014-15, the media spend on the Act FAST campaign was £850,000. Spend in 2015/16 is provisional and will be available in full shortly.

Spend on public health campaigns, over £25,000, are published routinely and available on gov.uk:

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