Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions have occurred as a result of injuries caused by e-cigarettes in each of the last five years.

The Department does not hold this information.

The revised Tobacco Products Directive (Directive 2014/40/EU) will, from May 2016, establish new rules for the safety, quality, ingredients and presentation of consumer electronic cigarettes, as well as refill mechanisms. This will include a requirement for manufacturers to report any adverse incidents and, as necessary, to withdraw/recall any product.

In the meantime, e-cigarettes are subject to general product safety regulatory requirements, which include powers for local trading standard officers to withdraw unsafe products from the market.