Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department plans to provide to help tackle the sale of illicit vaping products in the upcoming Tobacco Control Plan.

The Department provides funding to local authorities to support of local trading standards activity and the enforcement of vaping regulations to address the sale of illicit products.

We are currently considering the recommendations made in the independent ‘The Khan review: making smoking obsolete’, including tackling illicit tobacco and vaping products. Further information regarding the plan will be available in due course.