§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on representations made by Ministers to the Health Education Council about relations between the Health Education Council and manufacturers of sugar, tobacco and other products whose misuse or over-use can have an adverse effect on health.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeIn discussion in February with the council about sustaining programmes of health education I expressed the hope that there could be involvement between the council and industries generally on an increasing scale. The council indicated that this was its intention. I have fully recognised the care that the council must exercise in any such involvements, and there has never been any question of the council entering into any arrangement inconsistent with its overriding aim of health education.