PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Smoking (15 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government's response to the Prevention Green Paper consultation will include a commitment to placing a charge on tobacco companies to fund evidence-based tobacco control measures by (a) supporting smokers to quit and (b) reducing the uptake of smoking among young people.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

The Government is committed to achieving a smokefree England by 2030. Plans to achieve this will be set out at a later date, and a response to the Prevention Green Paper will be published in due course.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
1 July 2020