Health: Passive Smoking

Baroness O'Cathain Excerpts
Tuesday 30th November 2010

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Thornton Portrait Baroness Thornton
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My Lords, following the successful implementation of the smoking ban in all workplaces and public places in July 2007, which was opposed by many in the party opposite, will the Minister undertake—

Baroness Thornton Portrait Baroness Thornton
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I except the noble Baroness, Lady O’Cathain, from that.

Will the Minister undertake to ensure that, under the proposals for GP commissioning, NHS smoking cessation services will continue to be effectively commissioned and funded and that nicotine products will continue to be prescribed?