Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, ,how much his Department spent on campaigns to promote the cessation of smoking in 2020-21.

The Department spent an estimated £1.32 million on smoking cessation promotion in 2020/21.

This figure includes expenditure for advertising on television, radio, national and regional press, outdoor, social and digital advertising. However, it does not include other expenditure on recruitment advertising, media partnerships and paid searches.