Question follow-through · 74038
Department of Health and Social Care: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has spent money on social media influencers since July 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has spent money on social media influencers since July 2024.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has spent money on social media influencers since July 2024, in order to reach audiences that the Government and traditional marketing channels find hard to reach.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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