Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on campaigns to promote the cessation of smoking in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18; and what funding he plans to allocate to such campaigns in 2018-19.
Expenditure on smoking cessation advertising media by Public Health England (PHE) in 2016-17 was £1,520,000.
The projected expenditure for smoking cessation campaigns for PHE campaigns in 2017-18 is £2,060,000. Figures for 2017-18 are provisional at this stage. A final amount will be available later in the year once all accounts have been finalised.
Detailed planning is underway for 2018-19 smoking cessation campaigns; therefore at this stage advertising media allocations are not yet available.