HC Deb 28 January 1986 vol 90 c503W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much grant has been paid to the Health Education Council to discourage smoking as the principal known cause of lung cancer in each of the last eight years and in total over that period.

Mr. Whitney

Over the past eight years the Health Education Council (HEC) has spent £9.8 million specifically on its anti-smoking programme, that is:

Year £ million
1977–78 0.2
1978–79 0.3
1979–80 0.4
1980–81 0.7
1981–82 1.1
1982–83 2.4
1983–84 2.6
1984–85 2.1
In addition, there is expenditure as part of other HEC programmes, in particular the coronary heart disease programme, which is also directed against smoking.