Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people who take up smoking.

The Government has a proven track record in reducing the harm that tobacco causes. Last year, we published a new tobacco control plan to build on that success. In this plan we commit to reducing smoking prevalence from 15.5% to 12% among adults, from 10.7% to 6% among pregnant women and from 8% to 3% in young people by 2022.