Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which countries are in receipt of UK Government funding for tobacco control work, including implementation of the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The United Kingdom Government is investing £15 million of Official Development Assistance funds to promote the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) through the FCTC 2030 project. The five year project, being led by the FCTC secretariat in Geneva, is currently in its second year.

Through an open and fair process, fifteen countries have been selected to receive direct support under the project. The countries are: Burma, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Jordan, Madagascar, Nepal, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia.

A Tobacco Control Capacity project was recently announced, funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund. This is a four year £3.4 million programme of training and research work and involves UK academics in five Universities who are all part of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, a UK Clinical Research Collaboration Centre for Public Health Excellence, along with research organisations in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, India, South Africa and Uganda.