§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the findings of a recent survey on the level of compliance with the voluntary agreement covering cigarette advertising at newsagents.
§ Mr. SackvilleAs part of the 1991 voluntary agreement on tobacco products' advertising and promotion, the industry undertook to reduce the number of external permanent advertising signs for cigarette and hand-rolling tobacco brands at retail premises by 50 per cent. over five years. The committee for monitoring agreements on tobacco advertising and sponsorship last year commissioned an independent survey to monitor the industry's progress in this undertaking in the year from July 1993. The findings of the survey will be announced in the committee's eighth report, which is expected to be published in summer 1995.