§ Dr. WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she proposes to take to tackle the incidence of smoking among children with special educational needs.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe Government are committed to the continuation of the existing programmes on teenage smoking and to developing material aimed at parents who smoke.
We are encouraging progress towards a situation in which all educational establishments have an effective smoking policy governing not only young people but staff and all other adults using the premises.
Education in schools on the harmful effects of smoking is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education.