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167921

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of indications that the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products in other countries may have led to an increase in the consumption of cigarettes; and how they plan to take such findings into account before deciding whether to introduce such a policy in the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL3445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government continues to consider carefully all issues relevant to the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco products, including emerging evidence from Australia. <br> <br> No final decision has been made on whether to introduce regulations to require standardised packaging of tobacco products.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3446 HL3447 HL3448 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:15:15 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

167920

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish the results of the consultation on the standardised packaging of tobacco products.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL3444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>A consultation on the <em>introduction of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products</em> closed on 7 August 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A summary report of this consultation will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 16/12/2014 15:04:43 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

432090

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Department of Health has sought independent legal advice in respect of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and if so, whether they will place a copy of that advice in the Library of the House.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL3863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Any legal advice the Department may have obtained in respect of this, or any other issue, is subject to the usual provisions relating to legal professional privilege and as such will not be disclosed.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:44:39 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

448817

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Smoking
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 8 December 2015 (HL3861), what assessment they have made of why, when the UK ranks number one in tobacco control activity of 34 European countries, nine other European countries have lower levels of smoking prevalence.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL5597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Countries use different ways to assess smoking prevalence within their population and there is variation as to whether they include daily, weekly, or occasional smokers within the figures. It is therefore not always possible to compare smoking prevalence rates directly between countries. In contrast, Joossens and Raws’s Tobacco Control Scale in Europe, which ranks the United Kingdom as number one in tobacco control activity of 34 European countries, uses a set criteria to assess the implementation of tobacco control policies across European countries, enabling a direct comparison to be made between the countries of tobacco control measures.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 14:37:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

178625

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House the grant letters and reports relating to payments and the objectives of their funding the Action on Smoking and Health in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL4775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) were made through the Department of Health's Section 64 General Scheme of Grants to Voluntary and Community Organisations scheme (known as “Section 64 grants”). <br> <br></p><p> </p><p>The grant letters and full year grant monitoring and governance reports relating the Section 64 grants awarded to ASH in the past five years have been placed in the Library. The conditions applicable to the grants are set out in the grant letters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health has responsibility for the Section 64 grants made to ASH. The Departmental official responsible for governance is the Deputy Director, Tobacco Control.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4777 question first answered 23/02/2015 15:03:52 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

178627

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under which condition of section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 funding is made available to Action on Smoking and Health; and what is the job title of the minister and official responsible for ensuring compliance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL4777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) were made through the Department of Health's Section 64 General Scheme of Grants to Voluntary and Community Organisations scheme (known as “Section 64 grants”). <br> <br></p><p> </p><p>The grant letters and full year grant monitoring and governance reports relating the Section 64 grants awarded to ASH in the past five years have been placed in the Library. The conditions applicable to the grants are set out in the grant letters.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health has responsibility for the Section 64 grants made to ASH. The Departmental official responsible for governance is the Deputy Director, Tobacco Control.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4775 question first answered 23/02/2015 15:03:52 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

175892

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of links between terrorist organisations and the illicit tobacco market in the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL4472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) currently has no direct evidence that profits from tobacco fraud fund any specific terrorist groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The joint HMRC/Border Force strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling has been successful in driving a consistent and sustained reduction in the illicit market in the UK, reducing the market share for illicit cigarettes by more than half and hand-rolling tobacco by one-third since 2000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest tobacco anti-fraud strategy ‘Tackling Tobacco Smuggling – building on our successes’ was launched in April 2011. Its objective is to achieve further sustainable downward pressure on the illicit market in cigarettes through to 2015. A copy was placed in the House of Commons library at that time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2013/14, HMRC referred 328 cases for prosecution and seized 1,437 million cigarettes and 330 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 16/02/2015 16:42:52 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

681843

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to publish the results of the HMRC consultation <i>Tobacco Illicit Trade Protocol</i> on sanctions to tackle the illicit tobacco market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL5156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) consultation ‘Tobacco Illicit Trade Protocol – licensing of equipment and the supply chain’ sought views on two aspects of the Protocol. These were the mandatory licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery and the potential licensing of participants in the supply chain of tobacco products for the purposes of tackling the illict trade.</p><p> </p><p>A response document on the licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery was published on 5 December 2016 and draft legislation was published at the same time.</p><p> </p><p>Licensing of the supply chain is more complex and could affect a large number of UK businesses. Therefore, while HMRC is in a position to proceed to implementation of the licensing of machinery, supply chain licensing requires further consideration. A response document covering this aspect of the consultation will be published later in the year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 13/02/2017 15:27:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

61278

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to continue with the introduction of restrictions on the display of tobacco in smaller shops from April 2015, in the light of their plans to consider introducing standardised tobacco packaging; and, if so, what is their rationale for doing so.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Legislation to end the open display of tobacco products in shops has been made and will come into force for all shops on 6 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Standardised packaging of tobacco products is a policy that is still under consideration by the Government. No final decisions have been made regarding the policy. The Government will be publishing a final, short consultation that will contribute to final decision-making.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/06/2014 15:57:32 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

432086

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Retail Trade
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to quantify the overall impact on independent retailers of the tobacco control measures introduced in the last Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL3859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments specifically look at the impacts on small and micro businesses including retailers. All of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL3860 question first answered 03/12/2015 13:59:35 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer