United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 92775
Smoking
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21 September 2020
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9 October 2020 · Answer
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9 October 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits to achieve the Government’s objective for a smokefree England in 2030.
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21 September 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a levy on tobacco industry profits to achieve the Government’s objective for a smokefree England in 2030.
Source: Commons
9 October 2020
Answer
Smoking rates are the lowest on record at 13.9% for England and we are not complacent. We laid out our ambition to make England smokefree by 2030 in our Prevention Green Paper, ‘Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s’ consultation last year. Due to...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-09-21/92775
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1236195
- uk · wq-1236195 · source updated 9 October 2020