Stationery

Department of Health written question – answered at on 18 December 2014.

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Photo of Jamie Reed Jamie Reed Shadow Minister (Health)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (a) stationery and (b) printing costs in (i) each of the last four years and (ii) 2014-15 to date.

Photo of Daniel Poulter Daniel Poulter The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

Holding answer received on 16 December 2014

Spend on stationery and printing costs as categorised within the Department’s Business Management System in each of the financial years 2008-09 to 2013-14 and including for 2014-15 from April to November 2014 is provided in the table below.

Departmental comparison spend for 2008-09 to 2009-10 where available is noted below.

2008-09

2009-10

Stationery

£578,878

£839,240

Printing costs

£10,996,079

£12,577,335

Total

£11,574,957

£13,416,575

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

*2014-15

Stationery

£329,099

£110,814

£175,299

£33,230

£21,009

Printing costs

£4,547,960

£3,073,582

£6,487,117

£2,512,911

£294,152

Total

£4,877,059

£3,184,396

£6,662,416

£2,546,141

£315,161

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

Note: Information from 2005 -2007 is not available given the Department’s Business Management System was only introduced from mid-July 2008. 2008/09 data is not full year.

Equivalent spends from all the Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies as defined are provided below:

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

CQC comparison spend for the period 2005 to 2010 where available is noted below.

2005/06

2006/07

2007/08

2008/09

2009/10

Stationery

£411,742

Printing costs

£7,208

Total

£0

£0

£0

£0

£418,950

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

£268,929

£388,236

£438,646

£567,638

£589,194

Printing costs

£14,587

£405,577

£330,413

£584,795

£445,451

Total

£283,516

£793,813

£769,059

£1,152,433

£1,034,645

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

Note: The CQC did not come into existence until 2009 following the merger of the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission.

Monitor

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

£48,470

£74,510

£93,983

£166,689

£84,792

Printing costs

£34,182

£40,619

£57,228

£34,220

-

Total

£86,652

£115,129

£151,211

£200,909

£84,792

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

Monitor comparison spend from 2005-2010 is not available.

Public Health England (PHE)

PHE finance system does not have account codes which match those described precisely. However, the following spend is provided:

(a) Full Year 2013/14 spend on Office Consumables and Stationery was £1.3 million. For the part year to end of November 2014, PHE spend on Office Consumables and Stationery was £0.8 million.

(b) Full Year 2013/14 spend on Printing and Publishing was £459,000. For the part year to end of November 2014, PHE spend on Printing and Publishing was £309,000.

PHE comparison spend for 2005-10 will not be available as they were not an appointed arm’s length body (ALB) within this period.

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

0

0

0

£3,280

£2,062

Printing costs

0

0

0

£28,720

£6,400

Total

£0

£0

£0

£32,000

£8,462

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

Information for all previous years to this timescale marked as zero are from older HFEA finance systems stored offline and are not readily available.

HFEA comparison spend from 2005-2010 is not available.

Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

0

0

0

£88,763

£47,344

Printing costs

0

0

0

£318,606

£285,909

Total

£0

£0

£0

£407,369

£333,253

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

As the HSCIC only formed on 1 April 2013 there is no information for this arm’s length body (ALB) prior to that date.

HSCIC comparison spend for 2005-10 is not available as they were not an appointed ALB within this period.

NHS England

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13**

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

0

0

£12,500

£4,369,917

£1,995,020

Printing costs

0

0

£65,079

£5,532,369

£3,267,299

Total

£0

£0

£77,079

£9,902,286

£5,262,319

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

**Spend from 1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013 - when the former NHS Commissioning Board became an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body.

Information for NHS England comparison spend for 2005-10 is not available as they were not an appointed ALB in this period.

Human Tissue Authority (HTA)

HTA comparison spend for all years 2005-06 to 2014-15 where captured are noted below.

2005/06*

2006/07

2007/08

2008/09

2009/10

Stationery

£12,214

£19,674

£14,449

£18,377

Printing costs

£36,152

£28,139

£52,290

£62,842

Total

£0

£48,366

£47,813

£66,739

£81,219

*No 2005/06 data is available as this was the year HTA were created

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

£28,926

£20,302

£17,001

£15,711

£7,529

Printing costs

£8,388

£5,116

£5,056

£5,850

£3,873

Total

£37,314

£25,418

£22,057

£21,561

£11,402

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

NICE comparison spend for all years 2005-06 to 2014-15 where captured are noted below.

2005/06

2006/07

2007/08

2008/09

2009/10

Stationery

£71,990

£56,024

£55,898

£52,813

£66,129

Printing costs (Other)

£402,609

£469,012

£651,296

£437,866

£454,955

Printing costs (BNF)

-

-

-

-

£699,406

Total

£474,599

£525,036

£707,194

£490,678

£1,220,490

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

£55,629

£59,542

£71,450

£ 61,764

£573,035

Printing costs

£412,159

£181,215

£ 99,208

£631,016

£28,053

Total

£467,788

£240,757

£170,658

£692,780

£601,088

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

MHRA comparison spend for all years 2005-06 to 2014-15 where captured are noted below.

2005/06

2006/07

2007/08

2008/09

2009/10

Stationery

£203,804

£134,428

£103,185

£137,052

£111,913

Printing costs

£723,505

£313,410

£389,207

£318,340

£249,794

Total

£927,309

£447,838

£492,392

£455,392

£361,707

With NIBSC

With NIBSC

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

*2014/15

Stationery

£104,572

£85,511

£92,039

£178,364

£141,676

Printing costs

£446,271

£42,157

£155,702

£200,887

£99,243

Total

£550,843

£127,668

£247,741

£379,251

£240,919

*Spend from 1 April to 30 November.

On 1 April 2013 the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) became part of the MHRA and hence its costs are included for 2013/14 and 2014/15.

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