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90489

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 research his Department has assessed or commissioned on whether e-cigarette vapour carries health risks to bystanders.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	208087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department has not to date directly commissioned any research on this topic but is keeping the research that has been done under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The studies that have been conducted to date indicate that the risk of passive exposure to electronic cigarette vapour is small relative to tobacco cigarettes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/09/2014 15:39:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

90491

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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, if he will estimate potential savings to the NHS from more widespread use of e-cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	208086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There is not yet enough evidence on the impact of e-cigarettes on tobacco smoking to make an estimate of their impact on National Health Service costs. Some research suggests they have the potential to reduce the harms of smoking by supporting attempts to quit, and while e-cigarettes are not risk free, they carry a lower risk to health than tobacco smoking.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/09/2014 16:02:50 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

89426

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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, when he expects to announce the implementation of industry standards for those e-cigarettes regulated as consumer products.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	207465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 1 September 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, columns 185-86W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 207463 question first answered 03/09/2014 14:51:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Hansard extract - PQ206977_78.docx title Hansard extract - e-cigarettes
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

89428

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to implement stronger checks to ensure no rogue batches of e-cigarettes and liquid are reaching the UK.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	207463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 1 September 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, columns 185-86W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 207465 question first answered 03/09/2014 14:51:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Hansard extract - PQ206977_78.docx title Hansard extract - e-cigarettes
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

89582

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the policy document entitled, Helping households to cut their energy bills, supporting pages on smart meters, updated online on 24 July 2014, who incurs the costs of £10.9 billion for the installation of smart meters in homes.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	207542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Smart meters will bring an end to estimated billing, helping consumers to budget better and help make switching between suppliers easier and faster. Domestic and non-domestic consumers will have near-real time information on their energy consumption to help them control their energy use, and avoid wasting energy and money. Smart metering can transform the prepay experience. Topping up a smart meter in prepay mode should become as easy as topping up a mobile phone. New products and services will be supported in a vibrant, competitive, more efficient market in energy and energy management.</p><p>Suppliers will have access to accurate data for billing and to improve their customer service. They will also be able to reduce costs, for example by reducing call centre traffic, removing the need for a site visit to read meters and better manage debt.</p><p>Energy networks will have better information upon which to manage and plan their activities and smart meters enable smart grids which support sustainable energy supply.</p><p>Energy suppliers will be responsible for purchasing and installing smart meters. Energy suppliers and other energy industry participants, such as network operators, will also incur costs as part of upgrades to their systems and for Data and Communications Company services, so that they are able to take full advantage of smart metering.</p><p>As is the case with traditional meters, the Government expects that both costs and cost savings as a result of smart metering will be passed to consumers by competing energy suppliers through energy bills. We estimate that this is will result in energy bill reductions as a result of smart metering of £26 a year by 2020, rising to around £43 per household a year by 2030, for the average dual fuel domestic consumer – taking into account all the costs and savings.</p><p>The Impact Assessment, updated in January 2014, provides further details of these benefits and costs:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 207543 question first answered 08/09/2014 14:58:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

89585

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the policy document entitled, Helping households to cut their energy bills, supporting pages on smart meters, updated online on 24 July 2014, who receives the benefits of £17.1 billion for the installation of smart meters in homes; and what form those benefits take.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	207543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Smart meters will bring an end to estimated billing, helping consumers to budget better and help make switching between suppliers easier and faster. Domestic and non-domestic consumers will have near-real time information on their energy consumption to help them control their energy use, and avoid wasting energy and money. Smart metering can transform the prepay experience. Topping up a smart meter in prepay mode should become as easy as topping up a mobile phone. New products and services will be supported in a vibrant, competitive, more efficient market in energy and energy management.</p><p>Suppliers will have access to accurate data for billing and to improve their customer service. They will also be able to reduce costs, for example by reducing call centre traffic, removing the need for a site visit to read meters and better manage debt.</p><p>Energy networks will have better information upon which to manage and plan their activities and smart meters enable smart grids which support sustainable energy supply.</p><p>Energy suppliers will be responsible for purchasing and installing smart meters. Energy suppliers and other energy industry participants, such as network operators, will also incur costs as part of upgrades to their systems and for Data and Communications Company services, so that they are able to take full advantage of smart metering.</p><p>As is the case with traditional meters, the Government expects that both costs and cost savings as a result of smart metering will be passed to consumers by competing energy suppliers through energy bills. We estimate that this is will result in energy bill reductions as a result of smart metering of £26 a year by 2020, rising to around £43 per household a year by 2030, for the average dual fuel domestic consumer – taking into account all the costs and savings.</p><p>The Impact Assessment, updated in January 2014, provides further details of these benefits and costs:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 207542 question first answered 08/09/2014 14:58:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

89686

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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 the definition of e-cigarettes as tobacco products under the terms of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	207464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>Electronic cigarettes are not defined as tobacco products under the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The regulation of e-cigarettes, is however, scheduled for discussion at the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on 13–18 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/09/2014 14:34:29 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

79284

registered interest
date	22/07/2014
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 steps he is taking to ensure that no rogue batches of e-cigarettes and liquid reach the UK market.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	206977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The revised European Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU), which has a transposition deadline of May 2016, establishes new rules for the safety, quality, ingredients and presentation of consumer electronic cigarettes, as well as refill mechanisms. The new regulations will require six month prior notification of a range of information before either e-cigarettes or refills are placed on the market.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, e-cigarettes are subject to general product safety regulatory requirements, which include powers for local trading standard officers to withdraw unsafe products from the market.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 206978 question first answered 01/09/2014 11:52:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

79285

registered interest
date	22/07/2014
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, when he plans to announce the implementation of industry standards for those e-cigarettes regulated as consumer products.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	206978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The revised European Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU), which has a transposition deadline of May 2016, establishes new rules for the safety, quality, ingredients and presentation of consumer electronic cigarettes, as well as refill mechanisms. The new regulations will require six month prior notification of a range of information before either e-cigarettes or refills are placed on the market.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, e-cigarettes are subject to general product safety regulatory requirements, which include powers for local trading standard officers to withdraw unsafe products from the market.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 206977 question first answered 01/09/2014 11:52:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

79388

registered interest
date	22/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Smoking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many serious health events have been recorded per thousand (a) e-cigarette users, (b) users of nicotine replacement therapies and (c) users of the Champix form of varenicline in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	206979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>Reports of ‘suspected’ adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are collected by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Commission for Human Medicines through the spontaneous reporting scheme; the Yellow Card Scheme. The scheme collects ADR reports from across the whole United Kingdom and includes all medicines, including those from prescriptions, over-the-counter or general retail sales. Reports are also received for herbal medicines and other unlicensed medicines.</p><p>There is unknown and a variable level of under-reporting to the Yellow Card Scheme meaning that data collected cannot be used to calculate incidence, as such we cannot provide the number of serious health events per thousand. We are unable to calculate this incidence because neither the total number of reactions occurring in the population, nor the number of patients using the drug is known.</p><p>The following table shows the total number of serious UK spontaneous ‘suspected’ ADR reports received by the MHRA between 23 July 2013 and 22 July 2014 broken down for E-Cigarettes, Nicotine Replacement Therapies (excluding E-Cigarettes) and Varenicline:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Total Serious Reports</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Varenicline</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nicotine Replacement therapy</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>E-Cigarettes</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/09/2014 13:15:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies