Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Brine and Mark Pawsey

Tuesday 19th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con)]

T6. Public Health England has stated that e-cigarettes are at least 95% safer than tobacco products and are now the most popular way to stop smoking. What is being done to encourage smokers to quit using this method, and what steps are being taken to ensure that e-cigarette users are not forced to share their space with people who continue to smoke?

[Steve Brine]

The truth is that we do not yet know enough about e-cigarettes. I welcome the Science and Technology Committee’s investigation into them. We have asked Public Health England to include messages about the relative safety of e-cigarettes in its Quit Smoking campaign next month, but it is for local organisations and businesses to implement their own policies on e-cigarette use in the workplace.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Brine and Mark Pawsey

Tuesday 4th July 2017 Commons Chamber

[Steve Brine]

I am very happy to do that.

[Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con)]

Following the closure of their GP surgery, my constituents in Brownsover have had to make do without one over the past few years. Approvals are in place for a new surgery and it is due to open next summer. Will the Minister confirm that the timeline set out by NHS England will be met?

[Steve Brine]

I will ask NHS England, but if that is what it has told my hon. Friend, that is what will happen.