Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2016 to Question 52127, on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which countries are receiving direct country support; what the cost to the Exchequer is of that support; and which countries meet the criterion of being low and middle income countries for the purposes of training and guidance.

Further to the Answer of 14 November 2016 to Question 52127, planning is now underway for the delivery of support to low- and middle-income countries to implement the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The Government will contribute £15 million between 2016/17 and 2020/21 via the Secretariat of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to provide this support.

Only those countries that have ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and are listed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as being eligible to receive Official Development Assistance will be eligible to receive support through this project. The process of selecting countries to receive direct support will be undertaken over the next six months.