§ Mr. AingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the cost of the current campaigns by the Health Education Authority in England designed to encourage people to stop smoking in the current financial year; if he will make a statement on(a) the overall campaign and (b) the television advertising campaign; and if he will identify separately the costs of (b). [4860]
§ Mr. HoramIn the 1995–96 financial year, the Health Education Authority's budget for anti-smoking activity is £6,492 million.
The national smoking education campaign is designed to reduce the prevalence of cigarette smoking by preventing uptake among young people and motivating and assisting those in low-income groups, in particular parents and pregnant women, to give up.
The television commercials which will run from 26 December will cost £2.768 million.