Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of (a) the tobacco industry and (b) tobacco control charities to discuss proposals for legislation on plain packaging of cigarettes in the last 12 months.

Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2012-to-2013