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390987

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2015 to Question 5566, on what basis his Department reached its conclusion that Action on Smoking and Health was the only charity in this area with the appropriate national record and forms; whether his Department gave consideration to organisations or bodies within (a) the NHS and (b) local government providing such services; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2015 answer text <p>The assessments undertaken in the awarding of grants to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) contain policy advice to Ministers and so are not made public. The Deputy Director, Tobacco Control and Responsibility Deal, was the official responsible for making recommendations to Ministers on the awarding of such grants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department reached its conclusion that ASH was the only charity in this area with the appropriate national reach and focus, and appropriate standing in the international arena, based on an assessment of the information contained in the grant application and other relevant information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 7775 question first answered 27/07/2015 14:05:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

419107

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contact his Department had with Action on Smoking and Health on the Tobacco Control Strategy 2011 before publication of that strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	10529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Health Lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England, states that the plan was developed in collaboration with local government representatives, public health advocacy groups, academics, clinicians, professional bodies and retailers.This included Action on Smoking and Health.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/10/2015 11:10:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

381505

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department will provide funding to Action on Smoking and Health in the 2015-16 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	2761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department has received an application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health for the 2015-16 financial year. No decision on funding has yet been taken.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/06/2015 11:04:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

387609

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2015 to Question 2761 on smoking and health: finance, whether the award of such a grant is made on a competitive and transparent basis.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	5566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Grants made under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 can be made in a number of ways. The Voluntary Sector Investment Fund grant schemes such as the Strategic Partner Programme; Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development Fund; and Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund involve a competitive process. Some non-competed grants are also made by the Department using Section 64 powers. Any voluntary sector organisations can submit a proposal for such a grant and all applications are assessed against the same criteria.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The assessment includes a requirement for officials to consider whether there are other suppliers who can provide the requirements before awarding a grant to an organisation making an ad-hoc request. A formal assessment of the application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for the 2015-16 financial year has not yet been completed. Last year, the assessment of the application for 2014-15 funding concluded that ASH was the only charity in this area with the appropriate national reach and focus, and appropriate standing in the international arena.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 5547 question first answered 13/07/2015 13:55:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

387610

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2015 to Question 2761, what assessment he has made of whether organisations or groups other than Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are capable to deliver the services for which ASH has applied for grant funding.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	5547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Grants made under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 can be made in a number of ways. The Voluntary Sector Investment Fund grant schemes such as the Strategic Partner Programme; Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development Fund; and Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund involve a competitive process. Some non-competed grants are also made by the Department using Section 64 powers. Any voluntary sector organisations can submit a proposal for such a grant and all applications are assessed against the same criteria.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The assessment includes a requirement for officials to consider whether there are other suppliers who can provide the requirements before awarding a grant to an organisation making an ad-hoc request. A formal assessment of the application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for the 2015-16 financial year has not yet been completed. Last year, the assessment of the application for 2014-15 funding concluded that ASH was the only charity in this area with the appropriate national reach and focus, and appropriate standing in the international arena.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 5566 question first answered 13/07/2015 13:55:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

387611

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2015 to Question 2761 on smoking and health: finance, what the job title is of the official who will decide whether such a grant is awarded; and what criteria that official will apply in reaching that decision.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	5548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Grants to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) have been awarded under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968. All grants awarded under this legislative power must be approved by both HM Treasury and either the Secretary of State for Health or another Health Minister. Recommendations to Ministers for funding are only made once an assessment of the proposal has been made by officials against standard business case criteria which include a Strategic Case, Economic Case, Financial Case, Commercial Case and Project Governance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/07/2015 14:26:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

390988

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2015 to Question 5566, what steps his Department took following receipt of the Freedom of Information requests in May and June 2014 on the use of grant funding by Action on Smoking and Health.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Replies to the Freedom of Information requests in May and June 2014 were sent back to the recipient with documents and information that related to the award of a Section 64 grant to Action on Smoking and Health in 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11. The Freedom of Information request related to factual information, so specific follow up action from the Department was not required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department continually strives to improve the Grants application process, as part of routine business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/07/2015 15:02:24 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

390989

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what month in each of the last 10 years a decision to award a grant under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to Action on Smoking and Health has been made.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department is only required to retain documents relating to grants for the six years following the end of the grant. The months which the grant award letters were sent to Action on Smoking and Health in the previous years are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2008/09 - 2010/11: March 2008</p><p> </p><p>2011/12: October 2011</p><p> </p><p>2012/13: August 2012</p><p> </p><p>2013/14: September 2013</p><p> </p><p>2014/15: October 2014</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/07/2015 15:07:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

390990

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2015 to Question 5566, if he will place in the Library a copy of the assessment undertaken in the awarding of all grants to Action on Smoking and Health by his Department; and what the job title is of the official responsible for making recommendations to Ministers on the awarding of such grants.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2015 answer text <p>The assessments undertaken in the awarding of grants to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) contain policy advice to Ministers and so are not made public. The Deputy Director, Tobacco Control and Responsibility Deal, was the official responsible for making recommendations to Ministers on the awarding of such grants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department reached its conclusion that ASH was the only charity in this area with the appropriate national reach and focus, and appropriate standing in the international arena, based on an assessment of the information contained in the grant application and other relevant information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 7776 question first answered 27/07/2015 14:05:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

391003

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health has been refused in the last five years; and what the date and reasons for such refusal were in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>An application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health has not been refused in the last five years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/07/2015 14:45:06 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies