PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Diplomatic Service: Tobacco (6 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what training or information has been provided to UK diplomatic posts on the revised guidelines for overseas posts on support to the tobacco industry since those guidelines were published in December 2013.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

The Government has standing instructions to all diplomatic staff to follow the revised December 2013 guidelines on interactions with tobacco companies. We remind staff at diplomatic posts of these guidelines and their implications for our work overseas annually, most recently in May 2017.

Answered by:
Mark Field (Conservative)
16 October 2017