Department of Health and Social Care: Lanyards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its public bodies has spent on lanyards since 4 July 2024; what designs of lanyards have been purchased; and what the cost and number of each lanyard design purchased was.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the requested information for all bodies except for NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency; information for the excepted bodies is not held centrally or in the format requested, and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost:
Organisation | Design | Number | Cost |
The Department | Grey lanyard with ‘Staff’ in white | 2,000 | £2376 |
The Department | Black lanyard | 200 | £218.40 |
The Department | Orange lanyard | 100 | £180 |
The Department | Green lanyard | 100 | £180 |
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) | Green lanyard with ‘Staff’ in white | 4,000 | £5,200 |
MHRA | Red lanyard with ‘Visitor’ in white | 500 | £400 |
MHRA | Blue lanyard with ‘Contractor’ in white | 300 | £240 |
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) | Standard NHSBT design blue lanyards | 2,000 | £1,514.90 |
NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) | NHS blue coloured with NHSBSA branding lanyards | 700 | £295 |
Human Tissue Authority | Unbranded lanyards | 200 | £64.56 |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) | NICE logo lanyards | 520 | £681.78 |
NICE | Red lanyards | 10 | £11.99 |
NICE | Black lanyards | 50 | £34.92 |
Care Quality Commission (CQC) | Red with ‘Visitor’ printed on them
| 200 | £1909.77 |
CQC | CQC’s values as printed on lanyards | 2,000 |
Source: Department of Health and Social Care, MHRA, NHSBT, NHSBSA, Human Tissue Authority, NICE, CQC
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