| Heading: |
Tobacco and Vapes Bill |
| Question ID: |
1759798 |
| UIN: |
27137 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1593 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sammy Wilson
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| Asking Member handle: |
eastantrimmp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@eastantrimmp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative estimate of the costs of (a) implementing a one-time increase in the legal purchase age of tobacco and (b) introducing an age escalator, in the context of the Tobacco |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and ill health. It causes approximately 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom, one in four of all cancer deaths, and kills up to two-thirds of its users.Smoking also substantially incr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |