Health: Treatment Rationing Debate
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Viscount Ridley
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Health: Treatment Rationing
Viscount Ridley Excerpts(8 years, 7 months ago)
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Viscount Ridley (Con)
My Lords, in relation to the reduction in smoking, last week the Government published an impact assessment of the European Union tobacco products directive, which comes into force on 20 May. Does the Minister agree with the estimate by London Economics that aspects of that directive, including the ban on vaping liquids of 20 milligrams per millilitre or more, could increase deaths across Europe by 105,000 people?
Lord Prior of Brampton
My Lords, I am not able to answer that question, as I do not have the facts at my fingertips. However, I will investigate it and write to the noble Viscount.