Smoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom and causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It also costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service.

This is why the Government is planning to create a smokefree generation by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 years old or younger this year will never be legally sold tobacco products.

The Government is providing an additional £30 million a year for enforcement agencies such as trading standards, Border Force and HM Revenue and Customs to implement and enforce the law. The Smokefree generation consultation also proposes to introduce new powers for local authorities to issue on-the-spot fines, otherwise known as fixed penalty notices.

The analysis undertaken was a small-scale internal study of some of the early smoke-free adopter prisons which was used by HM Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) to support the rollout of the smoke-free prisons project. Given this analysis forms part of internal HMPPS management information, there are no plans to publish it.

The information requested in 149636 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as the implementation of smoke-free prisons was rolled out at different times.

An analysis was carried out earlier this year on the impact of the tobacco ban on Prison Safety and Security. There is no conclusive evidence of an increase in violence in prisons attributable to the tobacco ban. No additional security measures have been implemented in any prison following the implementation of the tobacco ban.

The information requested in 149636 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as the implementation of smoke-free prisons was rolled out at different times.

An analysis was carried out earlier this year on the impact of the tobacco ban on Prison Safety and Security. There is no conclusive evidence of an increase in violence in prisons attributable to the tobacco ban. No additional security measures have been implemented in any prison following the implementation of the tobacco ban.

The information requested in 149636 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as the implementation of smoke-free prisons was rolled out at different times.

An analysis was carried out earlier this year on the impact of the tobacco ban on Prison Safety and Security. There is no conclusive evidence of an increase in violence in prisons attributable to the tobacco ban. No additional security measures have been implemented in any prison following the implementation of the tobacco ban.

The process for tendering for the grant scheme to support delivery of the new Tobacco Control Plan has yet to commence. Officials have informed representatives of Action on Smoking and Health on progress with this process, and have reminded them that any grant will be awarded on a competitive basis, in accordance with Cabinet Office guidelines. All interested applicants will need to follow the terms and conditions of the tender after the invitation for bids has been announced.

There are no plans and no reason to stop the roll out of smoke free prisons.

The legal position on the application of the Health Act 2006 to public sector prisons has not changed, since the Supreme Court simply upheld the findings of the Court of Appeal. Indeed, the Supreme Court judgment contemplated that the government would take voluntary action as a matter of policy to fulfil the underlying purposes behind the Health Act 2006. The government remains of the view that the existing policy ambition is the right approach, given the acknowledged health harms associated with passive smoking. HMPPS will continue to roll out smoke-free provision in public sector prisons that are planned to go smoke-free, subject to operational and health readiness.

The two deliverables were removed as they were complete. It was agreed that activity would focus on addressing inequalities in smoking rates experienced by many disadvantaged groups in society and supporting local and national stakeholders to implement the tobacco control plan commitments.

The Department is still considering the scope and procurement process for grants to support the implementation of the Tobacco Control Plan. As such there has been no formal communication with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) or any other organisation on the proposed tender for tobacco control in England. We have informed ASH that the tender process was yet to commence, and reiterated that the grant will be competed for, in line with Cabinet Office standards for new grants. All interested applicants will need to follow the terms and conditions of the tender after the invitation for bids has been announced.

The Government remains fully committed to making all prisons smoke free. The decision to go smoke free in every prison is only taken after careful planning and preparation and the final decision is only taken when each prison has met stringent checks to ensure that it is safe to do so and all necessary healthcare support is available to help prisoners give up smoking.

The national roll out of the Smoke Free Prisons project has been actively managed under usual project management disciplines.

Maintaining order and control in our prisons is our priority and this large-scale project has been carefully managed. There is no evidence to link smoking as the causal factor in any incidents this year where national resources were deployed.

The Prison Governors Association (PGA) made no representation on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.

Throughout the roll out, the PGA have been briefed regularly on the progress of the project including details of the prisons which sit in each phase of the roll out.

There have been no representations received from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.

The Director of ASH, Deborah Arnott is a member of the national smoke free prisons project board and is informed of the progress of the roll out.

The Department does not collect data on daily smoking levels, and has made no estimate of daily smoking rates on an annual basis going forward. The Tobacco Control Plan for England, published in July, set out the Government’s ambition to reduce adult smoking prevalence to 12% by 2022, and to achieve a smokefree generation (5% adult prevalence or less) in the longer-term.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 2030 project has entered its second operational year and the Department has spent £3,955,369 to date.

The FCTC Secretariat is required to produce a full evaluation report at the end of the five year life span of the project. The Department has published the following business case for the project. This is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tobacco-control-measures-overseas

The Department of Health’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is reported annually in the United Kingdom Government statistics on international development. The most up to date published information can be found in the 2016 provisional statistics produced by the Department for International Development in April 2017 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-official-development-assistance-as-a-proportion-of-gross-national-income-2016

Table 3 shows a breakdown of UK Net ODA: by Government Department and Other Contributors of UK ODA, 2015 and 2016.

In 2016, for the FCTC 2030 project, the Department spent £124,298 on a staff secondment to the World Health Organization and paid a £870,000 grant to the World Health Organization. The Department of Health’s administration costs are funded from a central ODA admin budget. The Department for International Development will publish final 2016 statistics on ODA in November 2017 which will contain a detailed breakdown of Department of Health’s ODA expenditure.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 2030 project has entered its second operational year and the Department has spent £3,955,369 to date.

The FCTC Secretariat is required to produce a full evaluation report at the end of the five year life span of the project. The Department has published the following business case for the project. This is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tobacco-control-measures-overseas

The Department of Health’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is reported annually in the United Kingdom Government statistics on international development. The most up to date published information can be found in the 2016 provisional statistics produced by the Department for International Development in April 2017 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-official-development-assistance-as-a-proportion-of-gross-national-income-2016

Table 3 shows a breakdown of UK Net ODA: by Government Department and Other Contributors of UK ODA, 2015 and 2016.

In 2016, for the FCTC 2030 project, the Department spent £124,298 on a staff secondment to the World Health Organization and paid a £870,000 grant to the World Health Organization. The Department of Health’s administration costs are funded from a central ODA admin budget. The Department for International Development will publish final 2016 statistics on ODA in November 2017 which will contain a detailed breakdown of Department of Health’s ODA expenditure.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 2030 project has entered its second operational year and the Department has spent £3,955,369 to date.

The FCTC Secretariat is required to produce a full evaluation report at the end of the five year life span of the project. The Department has published the following business case for the project. This is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tobacco-control-measures-overseas

The Department of Health’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is reported annually in the United Kingdom Government statistics on international development. The most up to date published information can be found in the 2016 provisional statistics produced by the Department for International Development in April 2017 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-official-development-assistance-as-a-proportion-of-gross-national-income-2016

Table 3 shows a breakdown of UK Net ODA: by Government Department and Other Contributors of UK ODA, 2015 and 2016.

In 2016, for the FCTC 2030 project, the Department spent £124,298 on a staff secondment to the World Health Organization and paid a £870,000 grant to the World Health Organization. The Department of Health’s administration costs are funded from a central ODA admin budget. The Department for International Development will publish final 2016 statistics on ODA in November 2017 which will contain a detailed breakdown of Department of Health’s ODA expenditure.

Grants made under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 can be made in a number of ways. For the activities delivered by the current grant, awarded to Action on Smoking and Health, it was assessed that the non-competed tender route was most appropriate. Any future applications for funding under the Section 64 grant system will be reviewed by the Department in accordance with the Cabinet Office Minimum Standards which came into force in December 2016.

European Union rules prohibit the advertising of all tobacco products. Until the United Kingdom leaves the EU these rules remain binding.

Ministers have received six letters and one email since 26 April 2016 from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). This correspondence makes reference to the tobacco control plan amongst other matters relating to tobacco control. These figures represent correspondence logged by the Department’s ministerial correspondence unit only. During this time frame, Ministers have not met with ASH.

The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.

The 2013 report An Audit of the impact of the Department of Health’s Regulations upon business concluded that there is a robust cost-benefit case for the tobacco control regulations considered and experience shows that initiatives to reduce smoking prevalence work best in combination, with cumulative effects over time.