Action on Smoking and Health

(asked on 2nd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the (a) business plan and (b) grant agreement to provide funding for the organisation Action on Smoking and Health under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 5th March 2015

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) receives a Grant from the Department annually for work to contribute to the achievement of the national ambitions in the Tobacco Control Plan Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England 2011.

The Department holds regular meetings with ASH to monitor delivery according to the terms of the grant awarded under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act.

A copy of the award letter for 2014-15 is attached.

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