Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the data from the Office for National Statistics bulletin on adult smoking habits will be used to inform the Tobacco Control Plan.

The Government is considering the independent recommendations made in ‘The Khan review: making smoking obsolete’ and whether an updated Tobacco Control Plan is the most appropriate way to respond. Should a new Plan be published, it will be informed by the most recent Office for National Statistics information on adult smoking habits in the United Kingdom.