United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 35519
Nicotine and Oral Tobacco: Safety
Introduced
4 March 2025
Last action
12 March 2025 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
12 March 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) safety and (b) regulation of (i) snus and (ii) nicotine pouches.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
4 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) safety and (b) regulation of (i) snus and (ii) nicotine pouches.
Source: Commons
12 March 2025
Answer
Oral tobacco, otherwise known as snus, has been banned in the United Kingdom and the European Union since 1992. All tobacco products are harmful to health, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has determined that smokeless tobacco is carcin...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department of Health and Social Care · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-04/35519
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1781180
- uk · wq-1781180 · source updated 12 March 2025