Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is the policy of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to require pre-market testing of e-cigarette products from any manufacturer who has been found to breach the Tobacco and Related Product Regulations 2016 and who wishes to bring a new product to market.

The notification obligations of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 require producers of E-cigarette products to carry out testing of their products prior to the submission of their notification. This data is submitted as required by the legislation and reviewed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for compliance with the regulations. Where the data provided is compliant with the regulations, the MHRA is required to publish the product on its website. Once published the product can be legally supplied to the United Kingdom. Post market non-compliance is enforced by the Trading Standards authorities.