UK: Answering a written question on the impacts of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, parliamentary under-secretary for health and social care Andrea Leadsom
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17th April 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Tobacco and Vapes Bill was approved yesterday (16th April) in the House of Commons (lower parliamentary chamber) on a second reading, with 379 votes
21st March 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Tobacco and Vapes Bill was presented yesterday, 20th March. The generational tobacco ban includes tobacco products, implying that heated tobacco would be
6th March 2024 - United Kingdom |
UK: The government has started a consultation on introducing a one-off tobacco duty increase that would amount to £2 per 50 g of
30th January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is currently being finalised and will be introduced in this parliamentary session, according to junior health secretary Andrea Leadsom.
29th January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday (28th September), the government announced plans to ban sales of nicotine pouches to minors and sales of tobacco products to anyone
23rd January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The response to the "creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping" consultation will be published in the coming weeks, ahead of
23rd January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Doncaster (South Yorkshire) Police and Trading Standards officers inspected eight premises and seized 1,549 illegal e-cigarettes, as well as nicotine pouches and
19th January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
12th January 2024 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: At a debate on a smoke-free future yesterday (11th January), chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on smoking and health, Bob Blackman,
30th November 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: A new tax rate on heated tobacco of £325.53 per kg is now applicable.
27th November 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: As the end of the consultation on "creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping" is approaching, Labour MP Mary Glindon asked if
14th November 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday (13th November), health minister Helen Whately said the government will “automatically raise the smoking age by one year every year, so
23rd October 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: West Sussex County Council has seized non-compliant vapour and tobacco products in the council’s latest initiative, implemented by Trading Standards and Public
UK: Another consultation on creating a smoke-free generation has been launched by the government. It will consider regulating nicotine pouches as nicotine vapour products. Following
4th October 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Today, the prime minister's office announced that the government is going to propose legislation that will ban selling tobacco to anyone born
14th September 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday (13th September), several lords proposed Amendment 258 to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill. The amendment aims to make it a requirement
6th September 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Department of Health doesn’t have data on the uptake of heated tobacco and nicotine pouches among youth. Also, there are no
19th May 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: During yesterday’s (18th May) debate of the Finance Bill (2), members of Parliament questioned tax treatment of heated tobacco and e-cigarettes, and raised the
19th May 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Discussing plastic pollution, member of Parliament Richard Foord raised the role of disposables, cartridges and cigarette butts in the pollution of oceans.
4th May 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: In answer to a written parliamentary question, junior health minister Neil O’Brien said there were no current plans to increase the purchasing age
24th March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health secretary Neil O'Brien has said that there is currently no evidence that young people move from using vapes to tobacco
23rd March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that the heated tobacco retailer Neafs breached the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) code by
21st March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The government will unveil a set of proposals in the coming weeks aimed at realising the goal of a “Smokefree 2030” and responding
21st March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Lancashire Police and Trading Standards officers last week seized 1,024 counterfeit e-cigarettes and tobacco products in the town of Preston. Together they would
10th March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: At yesterday's debate, the National No Smoking Day, MPs asked the health secretary exactly when the response to the Khan review will be
8th March 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Asked in Parliament about a possible “smoke-free fund” to be paid for by the tobacco industry to boost public health budgets, junior
28th February 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: According to figures published by the government today, provisional 2022 tax revenue from a range of tobacco products including heated tobacco is estimated at £136m.
27th February 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior environment secretary, Rebecca Pow, said that the Environment Agency has so far not taken any enforcement action under the Waste Electrical
13th February 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Nottingham City Council has decided to award £75,000 of funding to commission a behavioural research campaign to help understand vaping and smoking
9th February 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Swindon Borough Council has announced that it has joined other local authorities in calling for the government to bring forward a new Tobacco Control
6th February 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health secretary Neil O'Brien avoided answering a question from MP Rachael Maskell about the reason for the delay in publishing an updated
18th January 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health minister Neil O’Brien said yesterday that the government has no current plans to implement further tobacco harm reduction strategies. He also said that because the government
17th January 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: In answer to a parliamentary question about when the new tobacco control plan and a response to the Khan review would be published, junior health
12th January 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health minister Neil O’Brien has told Parliament that the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is
9th January 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Nottinghamshire Trading Standards will receive additional funding to raise its inspection capacities specifically for shops selling age-restricted products like e-cigarettes. Trading Standards
9th January 2023 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: A shop in Taunton has been closed following a seizure of 119 pouches and a large amount of illegal e-cigarettes, in addition to
25th November 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health secretary, Neil O'Brien, said that the government has asked the Committee on Toxicity of Food, Consumer Products and the Environment to
24th November 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Asked if and when the long-anticipated Tobacco Control Plan might be published, junior health minister Lord Markham told the Lords (Parliament’s upper house) the government
21st November 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: When asked if the government will use the data on adult smoking habits by the Office for National Statistics for the Tobacco
16th November 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Tower Hamlets Council in London has announced the seizure by Trading Standards officers of 8,817 g of “illicit banned smokeless tobacco” as well
3rd November 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday (2nd November) Steve Brine was newly elected as chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. Brine was a junior minister
31st October 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Today, the deputy CEO of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Hazel Cheeseman, called for coherent regulation that covers all nicotine products,
27th October 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: According to the parliamentary agenda, the publication of the government’s Tobacco Control Plan will be discussed in the House of Lords on 23rd
26th October 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: New prime minister Rishi Sunak has reappointed Steve Barclay as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a role he previously held from 5th
11th October 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The long-awaited tobacco control plan may not be published after all, press reports. After its publication was delayed under the previous Conservative
8th September 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health secretary Maggie Throup said that the new Tobacco Control Plan will be published “in due course”.
UK - Wales: The Welsh government yesterday published its tobacco control strategy, aimed at reducing the adult (16+) smoking rate to 5% or less
22nd July 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday, 21st July, Sandwell Trading Standards announced results of recent inspections resulting in the seizure of more than £64,000 worth of illegal
7th July 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Junior health minister Maggie Throup has told MPs that the Committee on Toxicity of Food, Consumer Products and the Environment will consider its draft statement