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600662

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for his Department to support an indoor ban on e-cigarettes and other reduced harm products on the grounds of such a ban improving public health in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	48250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no further plans to ban or restrict the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes in England. The Tobacco and Related Products Regulation already contain provisions which prohibit e-liquids from containing any ingredients that pose a risk to human health.</p><p>The Government advice has been clear, the best thing a smoker can do is to quit and quit for good. For those that are unable to quit, switching to e-cigarettes is less harmful than continuing to smoke. Claims relating to cessation can be made on any product that has been licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and has successfully evidenced those claims for that particular product.</p><p>The Government has no current plans to extend smoke-free legislation to e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products, as the basis for this legislation is the health harms associated with second-hand tobacco smoke.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 48248 48249 question first answered 18/10/2016 10:55:32 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

600666

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidential basis his Department has to support a prohibition on claims of the effectiveness of e-cigarettes and other reduced harm products as smoking cessation aids on the grounds of such prohibition improving public health in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	48249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no further plans to ban or restrict the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes in England. The Tobacco and Related Products Regulation already contain provisions which prohibit e-liquids from containing any ingredients that pose a risk to human health.</p><p>The Government advice has been clear, the best thing a smoker can do is to quit and quit for good. For those that are unable to quit, switching to e-cigarettes is less harmful than continuing to smoke. Claims relating to cessation can be made on any product that has been licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and has successfully evidenced those claims for that particular product.</p><p>The Government has no current plans to extend smoke-free legislation to e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products, as the basis for this legislation is the health harms associated with second-hand tobacco smoke.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 48248 48250 question first answered 18/10/2016 10:55:31 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

599508

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an estimate of the effect on smoker mortality levels as a result of people giving up smoking by using electronic vaping devices in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	47958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that e-cigarettes can help some smokers quit and the evidence indicates that they are considerably less harmful to health than cigarettes. Data on the long term harms of these products is not available and it is not clear how many users will go on to give up vaping as well. Smokers who continue to use tobacco alongside vaping will not benefit from the harm reduction offered by sole use of e-cigarettes.</p><p> </p><p>Data from Action on Smoking and Health indicates that around 2.8 million adults in Great Britain currently use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). Of these e-cigarette users, approximately 1.3 million are ex-smokers while 1.4 million continue to use tobacco alongside their e-cigarette use. In 2014, two thirds of e-cigarette users continued to use tobacco and one third were ex-smokers. This indicates that, of those using e-cigarettes, an increasing proportion no longer use tobacco and are only vaping.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 19/10/2016 15:56:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

533612

registered interest
date	07/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent work his Department has commissioned with the Public Health Research Consortium on the effects of e-cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	42182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s Policy Research Programme funds the Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC). The PHRC is undertaking the project ‘E-Cigarettes: Development of Tools to Measure Norms Towards Ordinary Cigarettes and Nicotine Use’. This started in April 2015 and is currently in the write-up stage. It is due to go to peer review and publication plans will be developed subsequently.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 42210 question first answered 12/07/2016 14:56:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

533668

registered interest
date	07/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Public Health of 17 December 2015, Official Report, column 638WH, when he plans to publish the Public Health Research Consortium report on the effect of e-cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	42210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s Policy Research Programme funds the Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC). The PHRC is undertaking the project ‘E-Cigarettes: Development of Tools to Measure Norms Towards Ordinary Cigarettes and Nicotine Use’. This started in April 2015 and is currently in the write-up stage. It is due to go to peer review and publication plans will be developed subsequently.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 42182 question first answered 12/07/2016 14:56:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

532947

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential long-term health effects of trends in the use of electronic cigarettes amongst adult smokers.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	41910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Public Health England (PHE) report is consistent with the Government’s current policy that the best thing a smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking and quit for good. Evidence in the United Kingdom indicates that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking, with similar or better results than nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum.</p><p> </p><p>E-cigarettes are, however, not harmless and there is a lack of evidence on their effects in long term use. The Department has and will continue to monitor all emerging evidence and consider it in developing policy. PHE has been commissioned to update their evidence report on e-cigarettes annually until the end of this Parliament and to include within its quit smoking campaigns consistent messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public places in England.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 41909 41911 question first answered 11/07/2016 11:28:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

532948

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of Public Health England's recent findings that electronic cigarettes are 95 per cent less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	41911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Public Health England (PHE) report is consistent with the Government’s current policy that the best thing a smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking and quit for good. Evidence in the United Kingdom indicates that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking, with similar or better results than nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum.</p><p> </p><p>E-cigarettes are, however, not harmless and there is a lack of evidence on their effects in long term use. The Department has and will continue to monitor all emerging evidence and consider it in developing policy. PHE has been commissioned to update their evidence report on e-cigarettes annually until the end of this Parliament and to include within its quit smoking campaigns consistent messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public places in England.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 41909 41910 question first answered 11/07/2016 11:28:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

522134

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on e-cigarettes as a potential gateway to smoking.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	38658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government has set a regulatory framework in place that aims to prevent the take up of e-cigarettes by children and non-smokers whilst making them freely available to smokers who wish to use them to quit tobacco use. Gateway effect is difficult to prove or disprove but to date, in the United Kingdom, we have not seen any significant use of e-cigarettes outside of existing smokers and ex-smokers.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/06/2016 10:58:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

522139

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of e-cigarette users who will return to smoking tobacco products in the year ending May 2017 as a result of the Tobacco Products Directive.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	38712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made given the range of factors which may impact on rates of smoking tobacco and use of e-cigarettes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/06/2016 11:10:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

517468

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the Report, Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction, published by the Royal College of Physicians in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	36527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department has and will continue to keep abreast of all evidence and consider it in developing policy. The report published by the Royal College of Physicians is consistent with the Government’s current policy that the best thing a smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking and quit for good but that e-cigarettes have a role to play in helping some people quit.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/05/2016 14:06:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main