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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/239m-spent-on-swine-flu-vaccine.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Government spent £239 million on swine flu vaccine, official figures have shown" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-239m-spent-on-swine-flu-vaccine.jpg" alt="The Government spent £239 million on swine flu vaccine, official figures have shown"/></a></p>
<p>The Government spent £239 million on swine flu vaccine, official figures show.</p>
<p>The Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO) ordered the Department of Health to release the data after it failed to comply with a freedom of information (FOI) request.</p>
<p>The Government has always cited commercial confidentiality as a reason for not disclosing the information, but the ICO ruled it was in the public interest.</p>
<p>The department confirmed it had spent £239 million on the jab up to the end of vaccine deliveries in April 2010. The money was paid to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for its Pandemrix vaccine, and Baxter for Celvapan.</p>
<p>Some 90 million doses were ordered by the UK government, with most of the vaccine supplied by GSK.</p>
<p>In April 2010, the Government announced it had struck a deal with GSK to cancel part of its massive order for the vaccine, which saved the UK approximately one third of the original value of the orders with GSK.</p>
<p>However, there were still many leftover doses and some of these have been used this flu season after stocks of the seasonal flu jab ran low.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Department of Health said: &#8220;The Department has released this information in order to comply with the (ICO) decision notice.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have gone further than the original request by giving the full information on spend in the interests of transparency and in view of the public interest in this issue. We will continue to consider each FOI case on its merits.&#8221;</p>
<p>The costs relate to the development, distribution, promotion and purchasing of the vaccine, although the department has not been told to disclose how much was paid to each individual company.</p>
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