Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2015 to Question 6077, how many (a) meetings and (b) emails his Department has had with the organisation Action on Smoking and Health in drafting these guidelines.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials met with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in June 2012 to discuss updating our 2005 tobacco guidance so as to ensure it reflected our commitments under Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which was adopted in 2009. This department exchanged six emails with ASH between 30 June 2012 and December 2013 when the new guidelines were issued to posts.