Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with clinical bodies on the potential connection between e-cigarette use and heart disease.

The Government engages with various clinical bodies to discuss a range of tobacco control issues, including tobacco harm reduction. The Department has made a commitment to monitor the impact of regulation and policy on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products in England, including evidence on safety, uptake, health impact and effectiveness of these products as smoking cessation aids, to inform our actions on regulating their use. Public Health England will update their evidence report to the Department on e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine delivery systems annually until the end of the Parliament in 2022.