Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Advancing our health:prevention in the 2020s, what steps he is taking to ensure (a) Lambeth, (b) Southwark, (c) London and (d) England are smoke-free by 2030.

Local authorities are responsible for providing stop smoking services and are working towards the commitments in the current Tobacco Control Plan for England 2017-2022. Public Health England (PHE) provides tools such as the online Local Tobacco Control Profiles that allows users to compare local authorities in the region and benchmark local authorities against the England or regional average. The tool is available at the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/tobacco-control

Current smoking rates for 18 year olds and older in 2018 indicate Lambeth at 12.4%, Southwark 14.5%, London region 13.9% and England 14.4%.

PHE and other organisations, including the Greater London Authority and NHS England, are supporting a London-wide tobacco alliance to meet the smoking reduction aspirations in ‘A Health and Care Vision for London’. The aim is for London to become the first smoke free capital city before 2030. More information is available on the Healthy London Partnership website at the following link:

https://www.healthylondon.org/vision/

The Government remains committed to its vision of smokefree 2030. We intend to publish the Government response to the Prevention Green Paper, ‘Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s’ in due course and key steps and ambitions to deliver Smokefree 2030 after this.