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1697800

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of non-compliant vapes sold on the UK market.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	19830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department works closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Trading Standards, and other regulatory enforcement agencies to ensure that products sold in the United Kingdom comply with regulations for all e-cigarette products, and that non-compliant products are removed from the market.</p><p>In April 2023, the Government announced £3 million investment over two years to enhance work on illicit vape enforcement. Led by National Trading Standards, this builds on existing work by local trading standards officers across the country. Through this work, they identified that 2.1 million illicit vapes were seized across England by Trading Standards between 2022 to 2023.</p><p>To strengthen our enforcement activity, the Government will also provide an additional £30 million of funding per year for enforcement agencies, including Trading Standards. This increase in investment will help to stamp out criminal activity by boosting the enforcement of illicit tobacco and vapes.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 16:32:13 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1697802

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many non-compliant disposable vaping products have been seized through Operation Joseph.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	19832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on the number of illicit vapes seized through Operation Joseph in the financial year 2023 to 2024 will be published shortly.</p><p>Operation Joseph has identified that in the year before the Operation, 2.1 million illicit vapes were seized across England by Trading Standards from 2022 to 2023.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/04/2024 12:33:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1697803

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a breakdown of the allocation of £3million government funding for Operation Joseph.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	19833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>Operation Joseph was established to enforce the rules on vaping, and tackle illicit vapes and underage sales. It supplements work being undertaken by local authorities using existing local government funding. The £3 million of funding has been allocated over two years, from 2023/24 to 2024/25. A grant was provided to the National Trading Standards to commission specific areas of work, and to support local authorities. The following table shows the budget of each work area as of February 2024, as well as the total allocated:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Work Area</p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business Education</p></td><td><p>£88,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Training and Upskilling</p></td><td><p>£164,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Intelligence and Data</p></td><td><p>£500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supporting storage and disposal costs for local authority seizures</p></td><td><p>£600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Online test purchasing and website takedowns</p></td><td><p>£80,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Market Surveillance and testing of vaping products</p></td><td><p>£140,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tackling the import of illegal vapes</p></td><td><p>£1,087,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Programme Governance Communications and Evaluation</p></td><td><p>£281,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contingency</p></td><td><p>£58,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Allocated</p></td><td><p>£3,000,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: The figures shown are based on allocations in February 2024, and may be subject to change.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/04/2024 12:30:31 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1697891

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to tackle the sale of illegal vapes on the black market.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	19918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the worrying rise in vaping among children, with youth vaping tripling in the last three years, and one-in-five children having now used a vape. Underage sales and illicit vapes are undermining the work the Government is doing to protect our children's health.</p><p>To address this, in April 2023, the Government announced a £3 million investment over two years to enhance work on illicit vape enforcement. Led by National Trading Standards, this builds on existing work by local trading standards officers across the country to ensure that vapes sold in the United Kingdom comply with The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, as well as other relevant legislation that applies to vaping products. Activities include data collection and analysis to understand the scale of illegal products and sales, and market surveillance work. Through this work, they identified that 2.1 million illicit vapes were seized across England by trading standards from 2022 to 2023.</p><p>To strengthen our enforcement activity, the Government will also provide an additional £30 million of funding per year for enforcement agencies, including trading standards. This increase in investment will help to stamp out criminal activity by boosting the enforcement of illicit tobacco and vapes.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/03/2024 20:33:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 26257 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1686663

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department plans to take to regulate the locations of point of sale displays for vapes.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	12628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the worrying rise in vaping among children. Youth vaping has tripled in the last three years, and one in five children now use a vape. The health advice is clear: if you don’t smoke, don’t vape, and children should never vape.</p><p>The Government is committed to having the biggest impact possible in reducing youth vaping. On 29 January 2024, we announced our plans to regulate how vapes can be displayed within shops, alongside broader measures to restrict flavours, vape packaging, and to ban disposable vapes. We will introduce legislation as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 06/02/2024 16:42:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1684245

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle the sale of illegal vapes.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	10922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the worrying rise in illicit and underage vaping, with rates of youth vaping tripling in the last three years. Illicit vapes can contain unknown ingredients, stronger nicotine, and are made available to children through black market channels.</p><p>Local enforcement agencies are responsible for ensuring that suppliers and retailers of vapes comply with strict Government regulations. Selling illegal vapes can result in an unlimited fine and even a custodial sentence, as well as imprisonment of up to two years upon conviction.</p><p>The Government is significantly increasing investment for our enforcement agencies to tackle these issues. In October 2023 the Prime Minister announced an increase of £30 million per year for enforcement agencies to help stamp out the illicit tobacco and vape trade. This is in addition to the £3 million investment announced in April 2023 to set up a national illicit vapes enforcement unit, aimed at addressing the issue of illegal and underage vaping, which is overseen by National Trading Standards.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 30/01/2024 17:12:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1657439

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social care, whether he has had recent discussions with supermarkets on the (a) sale and (b) placement of vaping products in their premises.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	197008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Officials from the Department have met with supermarkets and retail associations to discuss vaping policy, including to discuss what further measures can be taken to protect children from accessing vapes and enforcing our vaping regulations.</p><p>The Government recently ran a call for evidence to identify opportunities to reduce the number of children accessing and using vaping products, and this explored how vapes are promoted in retail outlets. We are currently considering a range of options based on the evidence provided and intend to respond to the call for evidence in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 11/09/2023 15:22:38 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1657442

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy to require outlets selling vaping products to cover them up from public view.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
	uin	197011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Nicotine vapes, including disposables, are regulated through the Tobacco and Related Product Regulations 2016. These regulations protect children through restricting the sale of vapes to only people over the age of 18, limiting nicotine content, refill bottle and tank sizes, labelling requirements and through advertising restrictions.</p><p>Every nicotine vape packet contains a health warning. Vapes can also only be advertised in certain media and with certain restrictions. More information on these restrictions is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/22.html" target="_blank">https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/22.html</a></p><p>While vaping is a preferable alternative to smoking for adults, we are concerned about the rise in youth vaping, particularly the increasing use of disposable vapes and the unknown long-term harms. Given the recent increases, the Government recently ran a call for evidence to identify opportunities to reduce the number of children accessing and using vaping products.</p><p>The Government is currently considering a range of options based on the evidence provided, including potential changes to vaping policy and regulation. We intend to respond to the call for evidence in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 197006 197009 197010 question first answered 08/09/2023 10:31:42 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1652779

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Trading standards are helping to prevent the illicit sale of vapes.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	193914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with Trading Standards to prevent the illicit sale of vapes. On 11 April 2023, we announced £3 million of funding for National Trading Standards for a new specialised illicit vaping enforcement squad. This squad will tackle underage vape sales as well as removing illicit products from the market.</p><p>National Trading Standards have now begun the operation, gathering intelligence, training staff and bolstering capacity, and will begin field work operations in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 18/07/2023 10:06:38 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1642586

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) ban over-the-counter sales of vapes and (b) make vapes only available to people who are taking part in (i) smoking and (ii) vaping cessation programmes.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	188338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to ban the sale of over-the-counter sales of vapes or to make vapes only available to people who are taking part in cessation programmes. The Government is clear that vaping should only be used to help adults quit smoking, vapes should not be used by people under 18 years old or by non-smokers.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 14/06/2023 12:54:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell