Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to a report by ASH entitled Use of e-cigarettes, vapes, among adults in Great Britain, published in June 2021, what steps his Department is taking to help reach the target of making England smoke-free by 2030 given that 51 per cent of remaining smokers have stopped using e-cigarettes.

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will continue to provide information, advice and support related to the benefits of using e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation. We will continue to communicate this through local stop smoking services and campaigns. The Department is considering a range of innovative policy and regulatory changes to achieve our ambition to be smoke-free by 2030. This will be set out in our new Tobacco Control Plan, which we will publish in due course.