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<p>In the past 10 years, the Department has paid Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
a total of £16,016.40 in non-grant funding for help in implementing additional strategies
targeted at tackling health inequalities.</p><p> </p><p>Grant funding has also been
given to ASH as <ins class="ministerial">in the attached table </ins><del class="ministerial">follows</del>.
<ins class="ministerial">Any payment to ASH in respect of activity for 2017-18 will
depend upon the outcome of a competitive process to secure support for delivery of
the Tobacco Control Plan. </ins>The Department’s financial records do not provide
the level of detail to confirm whether funding was made under the legal power Section
64 of the Health and Public Services Act 1968 for all of this period. However, local
records can confirm <ins class="ministerial">only</ins> Section 64 has been used since
the financial year 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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