Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2021 to Question 50629 on Oral Tobacco, when he will publish the evidence on snus which his Department has analysed.

The Department received over 5,000 responses to the public consultation on the post-implementation review (PIR) of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulation 2016. Identifying the specific evidence relating to oral tobacco and/or snus across these submissions would incur disproportionate cost. However, the Department has now published the PIR, which includes a summary of the evidence and is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063222/the-tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016-post-implementation-review-web-accessible.pdf

The Department has not undertaken its own review of oral tobacco as it is banned in the United Kingdom and we have no plans to introduce additional tobacco products to the market. Safer nicotine delivery products are currently available for smokers, including nicotine pouches.