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Departmental Internet

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1179W, on the departmental internet, how many of those creations and amendments were made by (a) special advisers, (b) Ministers and (c) communications officials; and how many of those creations and amendments were made from the IP addresses of (i) special advisers, (ii) Ministers and (iii) communications officials. [183904]

Mr. Bradshaw: Creations and amendments to Wikipedia made from departmental computers are identified by a single IP address as all traffic passes out through a ‘proxy’ server and the IP address is that of the server not the individual computer.

All staff internet traffic is recorded and identifies which sites are visited by staff but does not identify what activity has taken place. Therefore, it is possible to identify from records which staff have visited the Wikipedia site but not to identify what entries have been accessed or whether they have been created or amended.

From August 2007, Wikipedia has blocked the Department’s IP address for creating or amending entries. Information on the Wikipedia site indicates that this has occurred because it has identified the IP address as being shared by many users. Since the IP address has been blocked, staff wishing to create or edit entries from departmental computers must create a user account with Wikipedia. Wikipedia will not release details of user accounts.

Departmental Public Participation

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consultations his Department has undertaken since 1997; what the final cost was of all completed consultations; and what the projected final cost is of all ongoing consultations. [181835]

Mr. Bradshaw: The Department does not hold information centrally about the costs of public consultations. Information on the Department's expenditure on public consultations could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

A list of the public consultations launched by the Department since 2002 has been placed in the Library.

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Departmental Publicity

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by his Department on (a) advertising campaigns and (b) opinion polling services in each of the last five years. [182849]

Mr. Bradshaw: The following table outlines the cost of departmental advertising in the last five fiscal years for which completed records are available, i.e. 2002-03 through to 2006-07.

Departmental campaigns expenditure summary 2002-03 to 2006-07
£ million
Campaign	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Alcohol(1)	0.10	0.05	0.34	0.06	1.90
Antibiotics	0.44	0.42	0	0.39	0
CALM	0.58	0.43	0.44	0.32	0
Children's health/pregnancy	0	0.05	0.40	0	0
Drugs(2)	1.52	1.50	1.99	1.26	3.13
Flu	2.00	1.60	1.50	1.85	1.16
Hepatitis C		0.15	0.70	1.28	0.53
Immunisation	1.00	2.00	2.00	0.35	2.80
Mind Out/Mental Health	0.16	0.95	0	0	0
Maternal and Infant Nutrition/Breastfeeding	0.28	0.46	0.75	0.74	0.73
National health service including nurse recruitment	4.23	4.90	5.84	0.02	0
NHS Direct	0.58	0.75	0	0	0.32
Organ donation	0.22	0	0	0	0
Prescription fraud	0.30	0	0	0	0
Promoting new NHS services (Caring in many ways)	0	0	0.85	0	0
Sexwise/teenage pregnancy	1.60	2.00	0.77	0.77	3.32
Sexual Health	1.50	1.50	1.26	0.62	4.00
Social care/worker recruitment	1.24	4.62	2.14	2.44	2.69
Smoking	7.87	17.34	24.00	22.70	21.53
Tuberculosis awareness	0.09	0.01	0.20	0	0
Walk-in centres	0.14	0.04	0.40	0	0
Winter (Get the right treatment/ask about medicines day)	0.50	1.87	0.99	0.98	0
5 a Day	0.50	0.48	1.03	0.90	0.92
E111	0	0	0.32	1.37	0
Total	24.85	41.12	45.92	36.05	43.03
(1) From 2006-07 Department of Health (DH) contribution to campaign run jointly with Home Office (HO) (2) DH contribution to campaign run jointly with HO

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A list of expenditure on opinion polling in each of the last five years could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The Department does not hold this information centrally.

However, information on opinion polling commissioned by the Department's Communications Directorate since April 2004 is shown as follows:

Poll	Total amount spent (£)
2007
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—March 2007	171,825
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—July 2007
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—December 2007
NHS staff survey and public surveys September 2007
2006
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—summer 2006	229,440
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—winter 2006
Public Monthly Omnibus January 2006
Public Perceptions Baseline
NHS Staff Survey—January 2006
NHS Staff Survey—July 2006
NHS Staff Survey-December 2006
DH Stakeholder Survey—July 2006
2005
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—summer 2005	106,205
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker—winter 2005
Public Monthly Omnibus 2005
NHS Staff Survey—July 2005
2004
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker Survey—summer 2004	78,000
Public Perceptions of the NHS Tracker—winter 2004
Public Monthly Omnibus 2004
2003
No records	—
Note: This should be regarded as an indicative guide on spend only.

Departmental Recycling

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what weight of paper his Department recycled in each of the last five years. [179457]

Mr. Bradshaw: The weight of paper (excluding newspapers and cardboard) recycled by the Department in the last five years as published by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) is:

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	Tonnes
2002-03	317.49
2003-04	510.58
2004-05	522.04
2005-06	303.84

Figures for 2006-07 have been submitted to the SDC for publication.

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