PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Smoking (16 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on campaigns to promote the cessation of smoking in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18; and what funding he plans to allocate to such campaigns in 2018-19.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

Expenditure on smoking cessation advertising media by Public Health England (PHE) in 2016-17 was £1,520,000.

The projected expenditure for smoking cessation campaigns for PHE campaigns in 2017-18 is £2,060,000. Figures for 2017-18 are provisional at this stage. A final amount will be available later in the year once all accounts have been finalised.

Detailed planning is underway for 2018-19 smoking cessation campaigns; therefore at this stage advertising media allocations are not yet available.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
24 April 2018