Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on whether there may be a connection between passive smoking and the menopause.

The Department’s Tobacco Control team has not held any discussions with the Royal College of Nursing on the connection between passive smoking and the menopause.

The Department does, however, regularly review the impacts of smoking as part of its tobacco control strategy.