Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the implications of the standardised packaging of tobacco will be assessed against the Government's One-In, Two-Out criteria.

The Department published on 12 February 2015 a final Impact Assessment which assessed all of the costs and benefits of standardised packaging of tobacco products, including a one in two out calculation beginning at page 64.

The final impact assessment is available on the Gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/403493/Impact_assessment.pdf