Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2015 to Question 2691, whether his Department has received representations on the use of grant funding provided to outside groups being used for the lobbying of his Department.

We have reviewed the Department’s records and have identified that the Department received a Freedom of Information (FOI) Request in May 2014 related to a grant made to the Action on Smoking and Health which was followed up by a further FOI request in June 2014.