Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to ban single use disposable vapes.

The Government is consulting on a range of proposals to tackle the rise in children vaping. The includes measures to restrict the supply of single use vapes, such as a potential future ban.

Details of the full range of proposals under consideration are set out in the Government consultation “Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping” which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/creating-a-smokefree-generation-and-tackling-youth-vaping

The consultation is live until 6 December, and we will publish our response shortly after.