Smoking
(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Prime Minister's announcement on a smokefree generation on 4 October 2023 on the operational capacity of police forces.
This question was answered on 24th October 2023
No assessment has been made. As is the case with existing age of sale legislation for tobacco products, breaches of the new law will be dealt with by local authority trading standards rather than by police forces. As previously stated, our new policies will not criminalise smoking.