Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13471, whether the Government's proposed standardised packaging of tobacco policy will now be reassessed against the revised one-in-two-out framework criteria published by the Better Regulation Executive after that policy was finalised.

Government policies, including standardised packaging of tobacco products, are assessed against the Better Regulation Framework in place at the time.