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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

515941

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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 information his Department collects on trends in e-cigarettes used in the UK across the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	35711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect any data on the number of people who use electronic cigarettes. The Department makes use of various data sources, including that published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the Office for National Statistics as an evidence base for policy making. This includes the Opinions and Lifestyles Survey for electronic cigarette use by adults and the Smoking, Drinking and Drugs survey for use by young people.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/05/2016 08:26:57 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

514967

registered interest
date	22/04/2016
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 data his Department collects on the number of people who use electronic cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	35115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect any data on the number of people who use electronic cigarettes. The Department makes use of various data sources, including that published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the Office for National Statistics as an evidence base for policy making. This includes the Opinions and Lifestyles Survey for electronic cigarette use by adults and the Smoking, Drinking and Drugs survey for use by young people.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/05/2016 14:28:07 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

506585

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 discussions he has had on the (a) positive and (b) negative effects of e-cigarettes on people who try to stop smoking.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	32878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The best thing a smoker can do to improve their health is to quit smoking for good.</p><p>The Department recognises that electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) can help smokers quit and the evidence indicates that they are considerably less harmful to health than cigarettes.</p><p>This Government has committed to publishing a new tobacco control plan to further reduce the prevalence of smoking in England. The development of this plan is underway and will be published later this year. The new strategy will consider the role of e-cigarettes in further reducing the prevalence of smoking in England. To help inform this element of the strategy the Department has been engaging with e-cigarette experts to ensure that local authorities and Stop Smoking Services are provided with up to date, evidenced based advice on e-cigarettes.</p><p>Whilst the Department has not made a formal assessment of the number of e-cigarette users who have resumed smoking, the evidence suggests that in the short-term, relapse rates are lower in those using e-cigarettes to quit.</p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the number of e-cigarette users who have purchased vaping supplies from black market sources.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 32943 question first answered 18/04/2016 13:50:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

457759

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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 his Department has made of the number of people who have stopped smoking cigarettes because they have switched to e-cigarettes in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	29870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Prescriptions for e-cigarettes will be charged like any other medication and normal exemption arrangements will apply including for those on low incomes.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2015 Public Health England published a report that outlined evidence that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking. Data from local stop smoking services shows that 2/3 of smokers are successful in their quit attempts when combining e-cigarettes with behavioural support. Data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests in 2015 there were 2.6 million e-cigarette users of which nearly 2 out of 5 no longer smoked tobacco products. This data is available at ASH ‘Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain’, 2015.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29869 question first answered 10/03/2016 17:22:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

457760

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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 offers e-cigarettes on prescription or at a reduced price to people living in deprived areas.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	29869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Prescriptions for e-cigarettes will be charged like any other medication and normal exemption arrangements will apply including for those on low incomes.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2015 Public Health England published a report that outlined evidence that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking. Data from local stop smoking services shows that 2/3 of smokers are successful in their quit attempts when combining e-cigarettes with behavioural support. Data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests in 2015 there were 2.6 million e-cigarette users of which nearly 2 out of 5 no longer smoked tobacco products. This data is available at ASH ‘Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain’, 2015.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29870 question first answered 10/03/2016 17:22:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

449863

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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 discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on research showing that e-cigarettes can cause cardiac damage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>There have been no such discussions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognise that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, and in August 2015, Public Health England published a review of the evidence, which concluded that they are significantly less harmful to health than cigarettes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2016 12:59:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449428

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
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, which vaping or e-cigarette products the NHS can prescribe to help smokers quit; and what the process was for selecting those products.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	25230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Only e-cigarettes that have been granted a marketing authorisation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) can be prescribed by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>By law, before a medicine can be placed on the market, it must be given a marketing authorisation (product licence) by a medicines regulator. The United Kingdom regulator is the MHRA. A specially trained panel of medicines assessors reviews all the available evidence arising out of the pre-clinical research and clinical trials. Manufacturers may also be asked to supply additional information. The MHRA also inspects the factory where the medicine is to be made, to make sure that supplies will be of a uniformly and consistently high standard.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To date one e-cigarette, e-Voke (10and 15mg electronic inhalers) has been granted a marketing authorisation by the MHRA. It is, however, not yet commercially available on the UK market to prescribe.</p><p> </p><p>It is a commercial decision whether to apply to a medicines regulator for a marketing authorisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/02/2016 16:39:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

427731

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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 research his Department has commissioned or conducted on the health effects of e-cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	15866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research is currently funding a randomised controlled trial to examine the efficacy of e-cigarettes compared with nicotine replacement therapy, when used within the United Kingdom stop smoking service. The report of the trial is expected to be published in 2018.</p><br /><p>Public Health England commissioned a comprehensive independent review of the latest evidence on e-cigarettes from leading academics. Their report, published on 19 August 2015, included the latest evidence on the safety and health effects of e-cigarettes.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/11/2015 17:29:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon