Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to take steps to restrict the advertising of vapes at (a) sporting venues, (b) on packaging and (c) at point of sale.

The Government is concerned about the worrying rise in vaping among children, with youth vaping tripling in the last three years and one in five children having now used a vape. The health advice is clear: if you don’t smoke, don’t vape, and children should never vape.

The Government’s response to the recent smoking and vaping consultation sets out our plan to introduce legislation as soon as possible. Whilst there are no current plans to ban the advertising of vaping products in sports venues, we will introduce powers to limit where and how vapes can be displayed within shops, as well as how vapes are packaged.