Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken research on measures adopted by other countries to prevent the take-up of vaping by (i) young people and (ii) adults.

The Department has not commissioned research on measures adopted by other countries to prevent the take-up of vaping by young people and adults. It is Government policy to help support adult smokers to switch to vaping to help them quit smoking. However, the Department keeps the emerging international evidence under continuous review.

Through Department funding to the National Institute for Health and Care Research it has commissioned the following research on youth vaping which is available at the following links:

https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR130292

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395919303056

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036293/

The Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update also has a chapter on youth vaping and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nicotine-vaping-in-england-2022-evidence-update